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Vote: | After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Explorers have to be ready to die lost. |
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Vote: | If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. |
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Vote: | Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. |
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Vote: | Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? |
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Russell Conwell Hoban (born February 4, 1925) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books. He lives in England.
Biography Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hoban enlisted in the Army at age 18 and served in the Philippines and Italy as a radio operator during World War II. He then worked as an illustrator (painting several covers for TIME magazine) and an advertising copywriter, before writing and illustrating his first children's book, What Does It Do and How Does It Work.
Shortly after writing his first full-length novel, The Mouse and His Child, he moved to London in 1969 with his first wife—illustrator Lillian Hoban, who collaborated on his successful children's series "Frances the Badger"—intending to stay only a short time; following the breakup of his marriage, he remained in London and has resided there ever since. All of his adult novels except Riddley Walker, Pilgermann and Fremder are set in whole or part in contemporary London.
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