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The Irish In Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban Experience

by Dennis Clark

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Jan 30, 2024 02:09AM

“In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications, you are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

tags: ohio

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“I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

tags: kindlehighlight

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“...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

tags: history, life, ordinary

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“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

tags: cynicism, humor

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