"Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms……" — Roy Blount, Jr.
"Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature."
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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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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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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which…
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the…
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Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is…
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So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your…
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Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or…
— Emily James Smith Putnam
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth,…
— Dante Alighieri
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We are not here just to survive and live long .... We are here to live and know life in…
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And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of…
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Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower…
— John Burroughs
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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside,…
— Rumi
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
— Alan Perlis
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