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

Roy Blount, Jr.

#Should Have Quotes #Mind Quotes #Affair Quotes

“It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many”
“I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman.”
“Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.”
“Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.”
“The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.”
“Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.”
“That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.”
“I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?”

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