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I do some eccentric dancing.
— Roy Blount Jr.
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.
— Roy Blount Jr.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
— Roy Blount Jr.
When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed.
— Chriscinthia Blount
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.
— Angela N. Blount
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
— Wiley Blount Rutledge
Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
— Roy Blount Jr.
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
— Roy Blount Jr.
A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Why try to fit in, when you're meant to stand out?
— Dyphia Blount
Then, by your definition... I'm in love with you.
— Angela N. Blount
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
— Roy Blount Jr.
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
— Roy Blount Jr.
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.
— Roy Blount Jr.
As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.
— Angela N. Blount
Everybody's damaged. It's just a question of how badly, and whether you're healing or still bleeding.
— Angela N. Blount
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door
— Garrison Keillor
The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.
— Angela N. Blount
People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.
— Chriscinthia Blount
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
— Roy Blount Jr.
The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.
— Roy Blount Jr.
The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.
— Roy Blount Jr.
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.
— Roy Blount Jr.
When God throws something your way, catch it!
— Chriscinthia Blount
I didn't actually know what regret tasted like - but I imagined if it did have a flavor, it would be lutefisk.
— Angela N. Blount
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
— Roy Blount Jr.
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
— Roy Blount Jr.
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.
— Roy Blount Jr.
I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Don't expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.
— Angela N. Blount
Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.
— Chriscinthia Blount
You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been.
— Angela N. Blount
