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Total quotes: 5

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Bill Bryson

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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: 5

“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”

— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent

Tagged: Choices, Life, Happiness, Sadness, Boredom

“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

“TV inventor John Logie Baird hates dealing with his board of directors. The chairman was particularly fat. So he designed his lab with a deliberately narrow entrance. He had to be shoved through. He was so humiliated, he never returned.”

— Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

Tagged: strategy

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