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Total quotes: 6

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Bill Bryson

Birthname

Birthday: December 8, 1951

Educated At: Drake University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Autobiographer, Journalist, Popularizer Of Science, Travel Writer, Science Writer

Total quotes: 6

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”

— Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Tagged: Home, Where You Live, History

“What's worse? To live a life so boring you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus you are easily bored?”

— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent

Tagged: Life

“He had experiences as rich and memorable as any young man has ever enjoyed, and was moved by none of them.”

— Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

Tagged: Life, Experiences, Memories

“Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.”

— Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Tagged: first lines of books, Hiking, Outdoors

“In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.”

— Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

Tagged: university, Sex, College

“My first rule of consumerism is never buy anything you can't make your children carry.”

— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent

Tagged: Life

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