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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#genocide #guard #huddled #indian #indian tribes

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#better #each #greet #hug #long

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#cage #claws #climbed #face #her

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#childhood #during #i #periods #talk

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#cannot #deal #father #go #great

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

#blind #cannot #eye #eyes #given

Yeah, writers do hate writing. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#writers #writing #yeah

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#almost #answer #anything #done #earth

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#commend #him #man #men #only