Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
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I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
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There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
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Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant
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Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
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Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.
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You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
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To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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The English as a race are not worth saving!
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I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.
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One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.
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Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)
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That's why my work is now more powerful and less arbitrary, as if seen by another person, and illuminated from outside.
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Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
