Best quotes by Bill Bryson on America

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• ‟ There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

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• ‟ I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

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• ‟ America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

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• ‟ All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

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• ‟ I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

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