Facts about Russell Hoban

Occup.Novelist
FromUSA
BornFebruary 4, 1925
Age99 years

Summary

Russell Hoban is a famous Novelist from USA, he/she is 99 years old and still alive, born February 4, 1925.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by Russell.

10 Famous quotes by Russell Hoban

Small: An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of
"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"
Small: There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one.
"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"
Small: Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isnt in us.
"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"
Small: When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man g
"When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?"
Small: Explorers have to be ready to die lost
"Explorers have to be ready to die lost"
Small: Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort an
"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history"
Small: If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bo
"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"
Small: But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing my
"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"
Small: After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak
"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
Small: Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out s
"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"