"A good book holds you down. It’s an……" — 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."
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39 Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.
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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…
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour,…
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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…
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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…
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much…
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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown…
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I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
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People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is…
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We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
— David Brinkley
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me…
— Kirk Cameron
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel…
— Emile M. Cioran
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My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk…
— Demi Lovato
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by…
— June Hunt
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
— Antonio Machado
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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