Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.
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The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.
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It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.
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Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
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I know what needs to be done... We need to write a report "Putin. War", publish it in huge numbers and hand it out on the streets. We will tell how Putin unleashed this war. That's the only way to defeat propaganda.
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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.
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I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
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A musical blast! Fun for the whole nuclear family!
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Time is long but life is short.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
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The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.
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I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist - that you have to be a brave and freedom-loving person.
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Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill - you ought to be vaccinated. I am not really equipped to say whether it should be the law or not.
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It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.
