"People may think of Southern humor in terms……" — Roy Blount, Jr.
"People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature."
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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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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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