"The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards."

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Source : Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

Lewis Grizzard

#Trying Quotes #Locks Quotes #Frozen Quotes

“Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Many people who call themselves deflationists are deflationists about propositional truth but not about sentential truth. I only ever mention that view to distinguish it from disquotationalism. I don't really have any objection to it, other than that I don't believe in propositions, so I don't think there's any such thing as a proposition's being true. Truth, on my view, is primarily a property of representations, such as sentences and certain kinds of mental states.”
“The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling.”
“Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.”
“I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.”
“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”

Source : Tools for Conviviality ch. 3 (1973)
“Living on reserve we hunted; we fished; we trapped. We lived off the land. If we didn't hunt, we didn't eat. In summer, we hauled water from the slough. In winter, we hauled in snow to heat for water.”

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