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Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

— Roy Blount Jr. Alphabet Juice (2008)

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I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies.

Alphabet Juice (2008)

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

I know, you want to make a citizen's arrest of anyone whose menu lists "Idaho potato baked in it's skin," but you can't.

Alphabet Juice (2008)

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

Long Time Leaving (2007)

A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

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