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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 _ 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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  3. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    How do the turtles find Ascension Island? There are sharks in the water too. Some of the turtles get eaten by sharks. Do the turtles know about sharks? How do they not think about the sharks when they're swimming that 1,400 miles? Green turtles must have the kind of mind that doesn't think about sharks unless a shark is there. That must be how it is with them. I can't believe they'd swim 1,400 miles thinking about sharks.
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  4. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    Navigare necesse est. Vivere non est necesse.' I've
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  5. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded."
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  6. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying.
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  7. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    Time's arrow points one way only. Even the moment just past cannot be returned to.
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  8. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    I've seen a film in which Dr Lorenz pointed out the difference between two colonies of cattle egrets, one free and one caged. The free ones, who had to provide for themselves, were monogamous and energetic and kept their numbers within ecologically reasonable limits. The captive egrets were promiscuous, idle, overbreeding and presumably going to hell fast.
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  9. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.
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  10. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.
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  11. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    I was on South Bank one day by the Royal Festival Hall. It was a sunny day with a bright blue sky. I was looking up at a train crossing the Hungerford Bridge. Through the train I could see the sky successively framed by each window as the carriage passed. Each window moving quickly forward and away held briefly a rectangle of blue. The windows passing, the blue remained."
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  12. Russell Hoban _ Turtle Diary

    Sometimes I think that this whole thing, this whole business of a world that keeps waking itself up and bothering to go on every day, is necessary only as a manifestation of the intolerable. The intolerable is like H.G. Wells's invisible man, it has to put on clothes in order to be seen. So it dresses itself up in a world. Possibly it looks in a mirror but my imagination doesn't go that far.
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