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Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.

~Bill Bryson

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I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Amazes Enjoy Excited Get Hotel Hotel Rooms Just Kind Left Lot Me Mean Rooms See Shampoo Still Traveling

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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

~Bill Bryson

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I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.

~Bill Bryson

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I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

~Bill Bryson

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The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

~Bill Bryson

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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

~Bill Bryson

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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Activity Any Community Downtown Economic Economic Activity Everybody Find Grew Hardly Iowa Malls Now Sense Shops Up Where You

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All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

~Bill Bryson

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One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

~Bill Bryson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1951

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