A Quote by Roy Blount, Jr.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Extremes Heavy Literature Perhaps Temperature Truth Truth Is

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Roy Blount, Jr.
American - Writer
Born: October 4, 1941

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.

Kristian Nairn

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Richard Cecil

There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Sarah Paulson

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.

Annie Dillard

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Dogen

For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles of successive perception, which allows it to build progressively.

Dumitru Tepeneag

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

John Berryman

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

Antonio Tabucchi

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Angelus Silesius

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

John Cheever

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

El-P

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

Tim Pigott-Smith

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.