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“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
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“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.”
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“Anger fed is dead – ’Tis starving makes it fat.”
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“Miserable indeed is a world in which we have knowledge without understanding, criticism without appreciation, beauty without love, truth without passion, righteousness without mercy, and courtesy without a warm heart.”
― The Importance of Living
― The Importance of Living
“Is there anything to beat finding yourself at large in a foreign city on a fair spring evening, loafing along unfamiliar streets in the long shadows of a lazy sunset, pausing to gaze in shop windows or at some church or lovely square or tranquil stretch of quayside, hesitating at street corners to decide whether that cheerful and homey restaurant you will remember fondly for years is likely to lie down this street or that one? I just love it. I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.”
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson (1991-09-30) [Hardcover] Bill Bryson
― Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson (1991-09-30) [Hardcover] Bill Bryson
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