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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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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You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
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Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.
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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?
