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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 33088e9 | 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 put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 14420f2 | If the way is diffrent the end is diffrent. Becaws the end aint nothing only part of the way its jus that part of the way where you come to a stop. The end cud be any part of the way its in every step of the way thats why you bes go ballsy. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 91cb66a | I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being. | memory | Russell Hoban | |
| 9cbaff1 | The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 463b5db | Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux, | Bill Bryson | ||
| 93886a6 | 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 best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid. | self-knowledge | Russell Hoban | |
| 790233b | There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 9c64e2e | 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 not only the novel but a biological treatise on the life of ants, an ecological study of ancient man, a philosophical work, and a history of small sailing-craft. | knowledge | Russell Hoban | |
| 319c16a | It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 865786e | Life as a umanbeing should be this wayAlone and blind and endlessly voyaging [said the Head of Orpheus] I think constantly of fidelity. Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognised they fill the heart. In love or terror or in loathing one responds to them with the true self; fidelity is not an act of the will: the soul is compelled by recognitions. Anyone who loves, anyone .. | Russell Hoban | ||
| a0a22c7 | 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. | middle-aged | Russell Hoban | |
| c7c1f8f | His eyes look as if he's pawned his real ones and is wearing paste. | Russell Hoban | ||
| ffee0fd | Apostasy fired her blood as love had done. | Apostasy | ||
| c60f405 | The kiss of the apostate was the most bitter earthly ingredient in the agonies which Christ endured. | Apostasy | ||
| 6303d5a | How I admired the life of taking pains, of living in defiance of a government that did not like you and did not want you and wanted to destroy you so that you had to build out protections for yourself with money and men, deploying armament, buying alliances, patrolling borders, as in a state of secession, by your will and wit and warrior spirit living smack in the eye of the monster, his very eye. But | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 5c67880 | It was innocents who died, not those born with the strength of no illusions. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| eff0ee8 | You have to know someone to want to kill him. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 926e0ec | And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 75018b0 | Homer, maybe you can tell me why I am fatally attracted to women who are no more than mirrors of myself. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 15b1a20 | When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 687ef49 | Morgan had ordered a light lunch. They did not say much as they dined without other | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 8db77f2 | The businessmen wondered if they could create such individuals not from the accidents of news events but from the deliberate manufactures of their own medium. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| d3704b9 | 9.01 Nausea catalogs the indigestible contents of the stomach that are to be brought up. 9.02 Memory that is nauseating catalogs the contents of the mind that can never be brought up. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 1d8f724 | support of the Mexican Revolution. He hadn't known | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 0ab3271 | truth is, I just shrug and soldier on. As kind as I am, as well-meaning and helpful as I try to be, I have no feelings finally, for good or ill. In the depths of my being, no matter what happens, I am left cold, impenetrable to remorse, to grief, to happiness, though I can pretend well enough even to the point of fooling myself. I am trying to say I am finally, terribly, unfeeling. My soul resides in a still, deep, beautiful, emotionless, c.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 866b9ff | The genome of every human cell has memory. You know what that means? As evolved beings we have in our genes memories of the far past, of long-ago generations, memories of experiences not our own. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 31e1a3c | Christ, what I wouldn't give to be something other than a human being. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 6816464 | We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 1270f80 | If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else. | culture spirituality | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 525d4c9 | Women went into hospitals to die of burst bladders, collapsed lungs, overtaxed hearts and meningitis of the spine. There | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 6ae17e7 | Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven into the fabric of the story, and as this happens, the reader is woven in, right alongside the description. In giving advice to writers, E. L. Doctorow once said that good writing should communicate more than the mere fact that it is raining. The reader should feel rained on. A | Douglas Wilson | ||
| b60ac02 | A person cannot live without looking for good signs, you just cannot do it, and I thought these signs were good. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 25a8dee | Novels can do anything in the dark horrors of consciousness. Films do close-ups, car drive-ups, places, chases, and explosions. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 21ccb46 | There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| e414608 | El amor en manos de los platonicos esta mas seguro y tiene menos problemas, nunca hace falta corregirlo, se ve uno fijo en el firmamento y nada puede quitarle de alli, existe uno en el orbe del respeto moral reciproco y lo que haga cada uno con su cuerpo y con quien lo haga es cosa que a nadie concierne. Y puede ser natural en ella amar de esa manera, nunca se caso, tendra, cuantos anos, pues eso, treinta o treinta y uno desde los quince ha.. | vida-alegre | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 47fd452 | 19. I wrote in my notebook that even if all the possible scientific questions are answered, our problem is still not touched at all. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 7248a79 | I am resentful, I feel fatherless again, a whole new wave of fatherlessness, that they have gone so suddenly, as if there was no history of our life together in the gang, as if discourse is an illusion, and the sequence of this happened and then that happened and I said and he said was only Death's momentary incredulity, Death staying his hand a moment in incredulity of our arrogance, that we actually believed ourselves to consequentially e.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 29a510e | And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe . . . are the souls of the dead? | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 780ab69 | Suppose I could prove to you that there are universal patterns of order and repetition that give meaning to the activity of this planet. Suppose I could demonstrate that you yourself are an instrumentation in our modern age of trends | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| fdc682a | Communists have no respect for people, only for positions. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 740ca7a | What Disneyland proposes is a technique of abbreviated shorthand culture for the masses, a mindless thrill, like an electric shock, that insists at the same time on the recipient's rich psychic relation to his country's history and language and literature. In a forthcoming time of highly governed masses in an overpopulated world, this technique may be extremely useful both as a substitute for education and, eventually, as a substitute for e.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 681cbd7 | The historian will tell you what happened. | E. L. Doctorow | ||
| 1e6669b | E. L. Doctorow quote that I believe, too: "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." How did you know you wanted to be a writer?" | Paula Treick DeBoard | ||
| cd07407 | Dimmi, Homer, possiamo davvero dirci liberi, se lo siamo solo quando ce lo permettono? (pag. 98) | E.L. Doctorow |