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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
"I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history."
"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
"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."
"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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