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Russell Hoban

"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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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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Donna Grant

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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Donna Grant

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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Donna Grant

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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Donna Grant

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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Donna Grant

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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Russell Hoban
"When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?"

Being

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Russell Hoban
"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."

Animals

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Russell Hoban
"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."

History

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Russell Hoban
"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."

Fear

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Russell Hoban
"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

Reading

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Russell Hoban
"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."

Man

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Russell Hoban
"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"

People

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Russell Hoban
"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."

Life

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Russell Hoban
"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."

God

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Russell Hoban
"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history."

History

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