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> [I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-am-open-to-the-accusation-that-i-see-compost-as-an-end-it-itself/)

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## More by Roy Blount, Jr

> [I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-think-writer-s-block-is-simply-the-dread-that-you-are-going-to/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/doctors-and-lawyers-must-go-to-school-for-years-and-years-often-with/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/lots-of-people-have-expressed-consternation-that-i-haven-t-gotten-rid/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/new-york-walking-isn-t-exercise-it-s-a-continually-showing-make-your/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/going-to-vanderbilt-did-a-lot-of-things-for-me-and-one-of-the-things/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-ve-never-thought-it-was-necessary-to-make-fun-of-people-you-can/)

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> [Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/many-a-person-has-been-saved-from-summer-alcoholism-not-to-mention/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/studying-literature-at-harvard-is-like-learning-about-women-at-the/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/being-president-of-too-many-well-meaning-organizations-put-my-father/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/twiddle-twiddle-away-at-my-softly-clicky-keyboard-for-a-while-making/)

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> [That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/that-s-american-english-for-you-more-roots-than-a-mangrove-swamp/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [I do some eccentric dancing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-do-some-eccentric-dancing/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

> [“When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/when-mannequins-have-nipples-it-s-a-cold-hearted-world/)

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> [I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-just-think-lots-of-words-have-physicality-how-about-the-word-wobble/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/english-is-an-outrageous-tangle-of-those-derivations-and-other/)

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