Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.
Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can. - Ian Frazier
Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.
- Ian Frazier
Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew. - Ian Frazier
Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia. - Ian Frazier
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor. - Ian Frazier
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Russians don't complain, usually. - Ian Frazier
Russians don't complain, usually.
Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows … - Ian Frazier
Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows …
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away. - Ian Frazier
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the dayli… - Ian Frazier
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the dayli…
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree. - Ian Frazier
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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