Quote by Russell Hoban
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory respon

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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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

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Learning
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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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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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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. – Jack Nicholson

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence… and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. – Manitonquat

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