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  1. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    His eyes look as if he's pawned his real ones and is wearing paste.
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  2. Russell Hoban _ The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and

    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.
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  3. Russell Hoban _ The Medusa Frequency

    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 who perceives the other person fully can only be faithful, can never be unfaithful to the sea and the mountains and the death in that person, so pitiful and heroic is it to be a human being.
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  4. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.
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  5. Russell Hoban _ The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and

    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.
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  6. Russell Hoban _ The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and

    There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.
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  7. Russell Hoban _ The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and

    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.
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  8. Russell Hoban _ The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and

    The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.
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  9. Russell Hoban _ The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and

    I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.
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  10. Russell Hoban _ Riddley Walker

    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.
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  11. Russell Hoban _ The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and

    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.
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  12. Russell Hoban _ Riddley Walker

    Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where youre going?
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