People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as yo… - Roy Blount Jr.

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People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

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Roy Alton Blount, Jr. (born October 4, 1941) is an American writer. Best known as a humorist, Blount is also a reporter, actor, and musician with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers.

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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

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.

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto. - Roy Blount Jr.

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