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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.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Tags: like, know, plants, wife

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I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Tags: say, think, words, you
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.
Tags: being, lost, father, me
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Tags: think, humor, people, best
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Tags: fine, movies, think, humor
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
— Roy Blount, Jr.
Tags: say, i-can, better, time
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