Roy Blount, Jr. Citas

• A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

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  Book, Anchors, Funny Drinking

  "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.

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• It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

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  Lying, Reality, Mind

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• Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

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  Thoughtful, Thinking, President

  "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

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  Should Have, Giving, Advice

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.27, Macmillan

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• If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

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  Cat, Hey, Problem

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• 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.

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  Gente, Necesidades, Hecho

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.421, Macmillan

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• English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

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  Blue, Gnarly, Enemy

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.125, Macmillan

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• The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

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  Sur

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• 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.

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  Football, College, Needs

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• I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

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  Gente, Quiere, Dura

  "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Ciertamente, hay gente que ha dicho muchas cosas profundamente desafortunadas y estúpidas con acento sureño, pero eso no significa que el acento en sí tenga nada de malo.

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  Stupid, Mean, People

  "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

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• A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

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  Library, Cards, Thousand

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• Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

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  Should Have, Mind, Affair

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South”, p.18, Knopf

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• Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

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  Home, Cat, Animal

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• In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

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  Atlanta, Void, Form

  "Long Time Leaving". Book by Roy Blount Jr., www.nytimes.com. 2007.

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• Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

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  Food, Pigs, Cooking

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2016). “Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

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  Sleep, School, Sacrifice

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• Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

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  Summer, Dostoyevsky, Alcoholism

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2013). “Now, Where Were We?”, p.250, Villard

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• The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

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  Groceries, Broccoli, Locals

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• A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.

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  Perro, Gato, Ojo

  "Now, Where Were We?". Book by Roy Blount Jr., 1988.

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• The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

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  Men, Numbers, Legendary

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• Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

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  Drinking, Learning, Hygiene

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• No sé qué puede haber comido el gato. Normalmente sé exactamente lo que ha comido el gato. No sólo se lo he dado de comer al gato, por insistencia del gato, sino que el gato lo ha vomitado sobre la alfombra, y alguien lo ha regado todo sobre la otra alfombra. No sé por qué los gatos vomitan habitualmente. No parece que lo disfruten, a juzgar por los sonidos que hacen mientras lo hacen. Es su naturaleza. Un perro ladra. Un gato vomita.

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  Dog, Nature, Cat

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• The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

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  Library, Pants, Firsts

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• Mozart combinó una gran formalidad y un juego que deleita como ninguna otra composición en ningún otro medio lo hace.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Doe, Delight, Mediums

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