Roy Blount, Jr. quotes
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“A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.
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“It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.”
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“Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.
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“English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.125, Macmillan
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“The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.”
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“I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.
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“Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.27, Macmillan
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“Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.
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“Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.”
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“A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.”
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“In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : "Long Time Leaving". Book by Roy Blount Jr., www.nytimes.com. 2007.
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“Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South”, p.18, Knopf
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“Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2013). “Now, Where Were We?”, p.250, Villard
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“Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2016). “Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations”, p.86, Macmillan
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“Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.”
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“Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.”
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“A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.”
-- Roy Blount, Jr.Source : "Now, Where Were We?". Book by Roy Blount Jr., 1988.
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“The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.”
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“I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.”
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“Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.”
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“The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.”
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“Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.”
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“I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.”
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“The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.”
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