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Russell Hoban Quotes

«Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.»
Author: Russell Hoban | Keywords: hurl, seek out
«When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?»
«But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.»
Author: Russell Hoban | Keywords: killing, scarcely, smoke
«Explorers have to be ready to die lost.»
«There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same management.»
Author: Russell Hoban | Keywords: Time management
«Things don't end; They just accumulate»
Author: Russell Hoban
«Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.»
Author: Russell Hoban | About: Language | Keywords: archaeological, palimpsest
«There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.»
«An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.»
Author: Russell Hoban | About: Ideas | Keywords: look out
«After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?»
Author: Russell Hoban | Keywords: right-down