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“No less bizarrely, the Italian anatomist Gabriele Falloppio (after whom the Fallopian tubes are named) was given a criminal who was still alive with instructions to put him down in the manner that best suited his purposes. Falloppio and the criminal together appear to have opted for a comparatively humane overdose of opiates.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. —DOROTHY PARKER”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family,” his father wrote in a line that nearly always appears just about here in any review of Darwin’s early life.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“There’s a really easy way to do food shopping in supermarkets,” he says. “Just stick to the outside aisles. The aisles in between are almost entirely filled with processed foods. If you stick to the outside, you will automatically have a healthier diet.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants