Top 14 Russell Hoban Quotes



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

 

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

 

He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

 

Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn’t at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.

 

We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still.

 

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

 

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

 

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?

 

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

 

I said, ‘Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.’He said, ‘Riddley theres other things to do as wel.’I said, ‘Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they?

 

Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.

 

The things that matter don’t necessarily make sense.

 

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

 

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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