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Roy Blount, Jr. has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then…
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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…
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
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When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing…
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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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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say…
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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…
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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
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A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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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…
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I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less…
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I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
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But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves…
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That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view…
— Jeff Schweitzer
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The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading…
— Jules Henry
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I was filled with rage. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of ‘targeting’ African-American children, they care about you only while…
— Gwen Moore
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a…
— Tayari Jones
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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children…
— William Labov
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American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This…
— Joel Fuhrman
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[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his…
— Tony Snow
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We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry!…
— Donna Mills
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