Quotes by Russell Hoban

Russell Hoban

A family is everybody all together.

Girl

Together

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.

Art

Baby

Philosophy

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

Communication

Inspirational

People

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.

Eye

God

Ideas

An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.

Dark

Night

Reflection

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.

Art

History

Philosophy

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.

Cigarette Smoke

Funny

Humorous

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Explorers

Lost

Ready

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.

Heart

Perception

Sea

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.

Believe

Horse

I Believe

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Believe

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Cold

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Conformity

Dark

Dies

Differences

Doe

Doors

Earth

Effort

Existence

Explorers

Eye

Father

Freedom

Funny

Generations

Girl

God

Green

Heart

History

Horse

Humorous

Hurt

I Believe

Ideas

Inspirational

Language

Life Is

Long

Loss

Lost

Make Sense

Mathematics

Matter

Memories

Men

Might

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Quotes by Russell Hoban

Russell Hoban

A family is everybody all together.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.

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