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Them as counts counts moren them as dont count
— Russell Hoban
Oh, yes," said Mother, "you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here.
— 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?
— Russell Hoban
A family is everybody all together.
— Russell Hoban
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?
— Russell Hoban
Mark you that and noat you wel.
— Russell Hoban
I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.
— Russell Hoban
He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.
— 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.
— Russell Hoban
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.
— Russell Hoban
He grew morose, and felt himself half overcome by funk
— Russell Hoban
If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.
— Russell Hoban
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
— Russell Hoban
There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.
— Russell Hoban
Language is an archaeological vehicle ... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
— Russell Hoban
Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.
— Russell Hoban
My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.
— Russell Hoban
I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.
— Russell Hoban
Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.
— Russell Hoban
O what we ben! And what we come to!
— Russell Hoban
O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.
— Russell Hoban
The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.
— 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.
— Russell Hoban
Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.
— Russell Hoban
But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.
— Russell Hoban
More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.
— Russell Hoban
It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.
— Russell Hoban
Life is a process of one goneness after another.
— Russell Hoban
If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.
— Russell Hoban
What I am is tired of jam. — Russell Hoban
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
— Russell Hoban
There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.
— Russell Hoban
Love me or I will kick you very hard.
— Russell Hoban
Is there an existence that is only mine?
— Russell Hoban
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
— Russell Hoban
Navigare necesse est. Vivere non est necesse.' I've
— 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?
— Russell Hoban
We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
— Russell Hoban
Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.
— Russell Hoban
We've tried the other way; we've tried making both things and people It, and we've seen the results.
— Russell Hoban
A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.
— Russell Hoban
Destiny is not to be trifled with. Do not commit the tragic error of satisfying present appetite at the cost of future fulfilment
— Russell Hoban
Words have a life; without response they die.
— Russell Hoban