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Roy Blount, Jr.
"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic."
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Roy Blount, Jr.
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“I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.”
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“I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.”
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“Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.”
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“Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos.”
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“I laughed all the way through Love Story.”
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“I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.”
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“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”
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“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
