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“I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.”
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
“Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.”
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“18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.”
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“I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.”
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“I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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