WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:54:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Blount, Roy Jr – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Blount, Roy Jr -- “Reading and Nothingness: Of Proust in the Summer Sun,” New York Times (1985-06-02) https://wist.info/blount-roy-jr/64426/ https://wist.info/blount-roy-jr/64426/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:48:59 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=64426 A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.


Roy Blount, Jr. (b. 1941) American writer, speaker, journalist, humorist
“Reading and Nothingness: Of Proust in the Summer Sun,” New York Times (1985-06-02)
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