"I have written some of the clumsiest, most……" — Roy Blount, Jr.
"I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind."
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39 Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.
Roy Blount, Jr. has 39 quotes on this site.
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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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A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and…
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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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More Clogged Quotes
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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It takes a strong heart to drive on clogged arteries.
— Unknown Author
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We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know…
— Peter Weiss
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Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with…
— Wilfred Owen
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion,…
— Karl Rove
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces…
— Adrienne Rich
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....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding…
— Edward Bunker
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances.…
— Adrienne Rich
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One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the…
— Will Rogers
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we…
— Olivia Wilde
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The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
— Daniel Handler
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hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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