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Quotation by Bill Bryson
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America (1989)The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way Morrow (1990)Related Subjects
hunger (9) cookery (8) drinking (8) fruit (6) sex (6) animals (5) plants (4) health (4) life (4) taste (3)
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
Bill Bryson (b. 1951), U.S. author, journalist. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America, ch. 3 (1989).
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