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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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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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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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. – E. O. Wilson

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Learning

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. Im a normal person. Just because Im in the spotlight doesnt mean Im Gods gift to the world. Im learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there. – Hayden Panettiere

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Learning

Im learning to embrace who I am and what I look like. – Erica Durance

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Learning

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. – Gates McFadden

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Learning

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I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. – Jeremy Renner

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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time Im home. – Levon Helm

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