Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

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• Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
• I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns,…
• 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…
• Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
• When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but…
• It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing…
• 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…
• Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
• A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
• 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…
• I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
• People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through…
• 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 you…
• I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
• Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is…
• 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…
• 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…
• New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.
• The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

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