Russell Hoban Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 4, 1925 - December 13, 2011

Topics

MyselfFeelSmokeLivingUnless

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

Jerry Brown

WorkCreateCooperationIntentional

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

John McCarthy

LiveAloneManPeopleSometimesGet

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Michael Ende

ArtListeningThinkSeeHalfWell

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

LoveGreatWomanGreat ThingsThings

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

Mary Douglas

Black And WhiteWorldStrongBlack

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

Mickey Rooney

GreatNightFridayAmericanFriends

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

Julia Stiles

LifeManCreativeHomelessFashion

You always feel more attracted to people who play the way you play.

David Silva

PeopleFeelYouPlayWayMore

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

Bruce Lipton

ScienceStruggleEndSurvivalMoral

I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.

Anton du Beke

InterestingWantThingsExciting

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Anne Roiphe

ArtWritingBetterArtistActMuch

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

Peter Pace

LeadershipTimeIntelligenceFact

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