"I just think lots of words have physicality.……" — Roy Blount, Jr.
"I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?"
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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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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
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I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
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