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? <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. D... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • People who for years had not looked for things in booked found new appetites for knowledge when they spoke to him. To someone who came in asking for the latest novel he might sell ... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was bes... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one pu... <span class='nobr'></span>
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

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