"It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing……" — Roy Blount, Jr.
"It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in 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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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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People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is…
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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