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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything y

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container. – Bill Bryson

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There are things you just cant do in life. You cant beat the phone company, you cant make a waiter see you until hes ready to see you, and you cant go home again. – Bill Bryson

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[A]nd then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. – Bill Bryson

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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. – Bill Bryson

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

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There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. – Elizabeth Lawrence

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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at…. – Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898

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I like to direct movies, but I dont like to goof around for eight years talking about it. – John Malkovich

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Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. – George E. Allen

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Im not hip, Im not cool, Im not glib. – Eric Bogosian

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In my minds eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. – Ansel Adams

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