Quote by Russell Hoban
When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the ne

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

Other quotes by Russell Hoban

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

Category:
Violence
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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

Category:
Learning
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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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Smoking
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Other Quotes from
Stress
category

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. – Author Unknown

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Stress

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. – Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 1947

Category:
Stress

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply? – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Stress

Of the power of mind, over body… I have seen some striking instances, and can safely affirm, that mental agitation is a strong, predisposing cause of disease. – “An intelligent correspondent,” quoted by Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734), q

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Stress

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Take away the right to say “fuck” and you take away the right to say “fuck the government.” – Lenny Bruce

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