Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up aroun… - Roy Blount, Jr.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up aroun…
- Roy Blount, Jr.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. - Roy Blount, Jr.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too la… - Roy Blount, Jr.
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too la…
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South. - Roy Blount, Jr.
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.
Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always soun… - Roy Blount, Jr.
Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always soun…
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions. - Roy Blount, Jr.
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the a… - Roy Blount, Jr.
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the a…
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football. - Roy Blount, Jr.
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the … - Roy Blount, Jr.
I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the …
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