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Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Big Book Car Day Driven Eat Else Endlessly Everywhere Expense Fun Get Hotels Important Kind More Much Nice Really Silver Someone Stay Steak Stretch Talk Than Three Times Tours Treated Weeks You Yourself

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The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Dark Dark Place History Indeed Much Night Place Very World

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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Arts Been Cancer Cure Fix Get Global Global Warming Going Graduate Important Important Thing Malaria May Most Most Important Thing Other Planet Quite Rid Science The Most Important Thing Things Valuable Warming

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I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Always Baseball Book Countries Following Large Large Part Love Part Playing Problem Very Wanted I Love

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To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Airport Book Computer Continue Exactly Exactly The Same Fact Fire Greatest Home Hotel Hotel Room Invention Laptop Left Lifetime Lounge Me Miracle Place Room Same Up Working I Can

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I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Being Britain Could Crazy Down Each Essentially Ever Fantastic Feel Give Human Human Being Just Just Kind Kind Like List Lived Long Long List Me Most Other Same Say She Suit Things Way Wife You I Feel

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The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Book Britain Did Encouraged First Kind Me More Publishers Successful Travel

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I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Again Another Because Cannot Disappointing Done Ever Many Meal Passage Sometimes Think Times Write

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Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Always American Better British Clothing Comfortable Conspicuous Dress Hot Men Seem Shorts Travelers Wear Wearing Yes

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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Atlantic Babe Babe Ruth Been Charles Fascinated Flew Hit Home Home Runs Idea Long Long Time Runs Ruth Same Summer Time Vaguely

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1951

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