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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Roy Blount, Jr.
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Musician
Writer
Indianapolis
Indiana
Swamp
Swamps
English
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To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.
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Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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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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I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.
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Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
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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.
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Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
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The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.
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New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.
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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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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
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I do some eccentric dancing.
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Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.
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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
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When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
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I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.
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An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.
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Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.
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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.
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