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Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson
American Writer
Born: Dec 8, 1951
Book Me People Time World You
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I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth. Bill Bryson
God Time Me People Long Stupid Spend Earth Part Most Stupid People Known Little Plan Little Time Each
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Bill Bryson
Good World Light Single Before Dim Hundredth Light Bulb How Bulb Provides Forget Candle Just Barely Painfully Electricity Illumination
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. Bill Bryson
Government Time Closed Down Alcohol Criminal Prohibition Criminals States Stroke Pretty More Remarkable Never Industry Been Years Handed Than America American Just American Government Fifth Production United United States Largest Thing
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. Bill Bryson
People Speak World Sometimes Try Rest Seems More Than English Million Million People
I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time. Bill Bryson
Time Me People Better Easily Constantly Seems Construct Disappointed Know Very Want Whether Things
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. Bill Bryson
Funny You Country Own Nothing Live Funny Way Everyone Way More Feel Like Makes Than Native Where Your Nearly
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way. Bill Bryson
Great You Appreciation Walk Drive Beauty National Mountains Way Say Scale Outdoors See Slower Some More Park Majestic Sort Smoky Discover National Park Get Different Then Much Different Way
I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity. Bill Bryson
Time Prosperity Country Alive No Country More Had Known Been Than America Place Gratifying Ever Imagine
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
Beautiful Generation Hate World Lost Reliably Would Allowed Part Countryside Most Still Anywhere Britain
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way. Bill Bryson
Life You World Way Focused Direct Make Make A Difference Fix Difference Want Energies Your
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
History You Country Living Heritage Unlike Part Make Makes Still America Your Things Here British
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. Bill Bryson
Words Before Tea Back Sides Bacon High Beacon Never Heard Short Full England
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. Bill Bryson
Work You World Tend Importance Scientists Overstate Large Hardly
I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all. Bill Bryson
Me Disappointment People Dinner Party Sit Books Dinner Party See Someone Guy Feel Because Witty Quick Expect Often Next
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all. Bill Bryson
Remember Half Sense Guide Way Distracted Telling Would Something Direction No Sense Through Absolutely Make Terrible Genuinely Get Oh Story Explaining Things
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
Me Crazy You Human Being Wife Long Down Other Way Say Kind About Give Could Long List Feel Like Most She Same List Human Essentially Just Being Just Kind Fantastic Each Lived Ever Things Britain Suit
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
Me Travel Book First Kind More Encouraged Did Successful Publishers Britain
I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times. Bill Bryson
Sometimes Meal Think About Write Disappointing Another Because Passage Times Done Cannot Again Many Ever
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
Better Men Conspicuous Wear Wearing Dress Seem Hot Comfortable Always Yes American Clothing American Men Shorts Travelers British
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
Time Home Long Long Time Summer Runs Atlantic Charles Ruth Idea Been Hit Same Flew Home Runs Fascinated Babe Vaguely Babe Ruth
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on. Bill Bryson
Myself Book People Writing Nothing Corner Else Summer Period Came End Did Painted Whole Lives
The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged. Bill Bryson
You Book Challenge Will Three More Know Years Subject Any Going Want Working Engaged Keep Basic Four
I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Bill Bryson
Me Easily Constantly Seems Disappointed Know Very Whether
I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent. Bill Bryson
Time Angry Better Opportunity Books About Tend Vent Get Want Things
Cheapness is a great virtue. Bill Bryson
Great Virtue
I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all. Bill Bryson
Time Me Wife Long Long Time Wish Every Changed Kids Adjust Abroad Voice Could Never Accent Accents Because Hear Just Intentionally Happened English Lived
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