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From Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.
- 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…
- Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
- When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's…
- A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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