A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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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