Quote by Russell Hoban
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach t

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

Other quotes by Russell Hoban

But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban

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Smoking
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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you dont make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. – Russell Hoban

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Violence
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When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban

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Stress
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Other Quotes from
Learning
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. – Edward Young

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Learning

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. – Umberto Eco

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Learning

Obviously, Ive been on sets before but nothing as big as Twilight. You forget sometimes that youre on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. Its such a great learning experience. – Booboo Stewart

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Learning

Ive done some TV and Ive done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. Im used to learning material and words. – Sutton Foster

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Learning

Random Quotes

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. – Jean Cocteau

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Automobiles

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: theyve been hurt, theyre sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell thats protecting this tiny, dear part in them thats still alive. – Jeff Bridges

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Romantic

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile. – Author Unknown

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Smiles

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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Silence