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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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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We…
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage.
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
— Edward James Olmos
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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether…
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The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well…
— James Madison
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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
— Bernard Lown
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