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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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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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
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Bookstores contain groceries for the mind!
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Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.
