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Quotes from The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America — Bill Bryson

born 1951 United States

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I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called "Mr Ed", which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bill Bryson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.