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

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

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

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Stress

The only pressure Im under is the pressure Ive put on myself. – Mark Messier

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Stress

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. – Spanish Proverb

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Grief is a species of idleness. – Samuel Johnson

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If we are not free, no one will respect us. – Abdul Kalam

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The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. Bridesmaids is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as Bad Teacher. – Chris Pratt

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funny

If we werent all crazy, we would go insane. – Jimmy Buffett

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Sanity