"The more you try to pin a word……" — Roy Blount, Jr.
"The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat."
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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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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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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask…
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Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go…
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they…
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[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent,…
— Allan McLeod Cormack
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How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An…
— Thabo Mbeki
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We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our…
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When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN,
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Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just…
— Dave Attell
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And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.
— Unknown Author
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If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck…
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