Author: Russell Hoban

Quotes

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

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

- 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?

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

- 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.

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.

- 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.

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.

- Russell Hoban

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