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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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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for…
— Franz Boas
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most…
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.…
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's…
— Maya Angelou
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended…
— Bruce Alberts
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Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that…
— Oswald Chambers
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The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must…
— Rajneesh
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Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.
— Rajneesh
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We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example,…
— Theodore Dreiser
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I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of…
— Ronald Reagan
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