Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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 …
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.
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.
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