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O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.

Russell Hoban

O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.

Tags: foot in mouth, pause, speaking, thoughtlessness

Sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal

Russell Hoban

Sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal

Tags: post apocalyptic

About Author
Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was a British-American writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books.
He lived in London from 1969 until his death.

Looking at them words going down on this paper right this minim I know there aint no such thing there aint no only my self you all ways have every 1 and every thing on your back.

Russell Hoban

Looking at them words going down on this paper right this minim I know there aint no such thing there aint no only my self you all ways have every 1 and every thing on your back.

If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.

Russell Hoban

If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.

He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken.

Russell Hoban

He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken.

Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who...

Russell Hoban

Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who...

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

Russell Hoban

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

Tags: collective unconscious, consciousness, fiction, macrocosm, microcosm, virtual reality, wisdom

Our woal life is a idear we dint think of nor we dont know what it is.

Russell Hoban

Our woal life is a idear we dint think of nor we dont know what it is.

It isn't at all suprising that horses figure in so many diffrent ways in myth and story-there is such power in them beyond the phsyical. The prehistoric life in them seems whole and intact. Any horse...

Russell Hoban

It isn't at all suprising that horses figure in so many diffrent ways in myth and story-there is such power in them beyond the phsyical. The prehistoric life in them seems whole and intact. Any horse...

There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.'Did he bite you?' said Father.'No,' said Frances.'Did he scratch you?' said Mother.'No,' said Frances.'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will n...

Russell Hoban

There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.'Did he bite you?' said Father.'No,' said Frances.'Did he scratch you?' said Mother.'No,' said Frances.'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will n...

Tags: children s literature, humor, stalling, tigers

Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...)'How can the wind have a job?' asked Frances. ' has a job,' said Father.'I have to go to my office every morning at nine o'clock. T...

Russell Hoban

Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...)'How can the wind have a job?' asked Frances. ' has a job,' said Father.'I have to go to my office every morning at nine o'clock. T...

Tags: humor, jobs, spanking, stalling

It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.

Russell Hoban

It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.

Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying.

Russell Hoban

Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying.

Its some kynd of thing it aint us but yet its in us. Its looking out thru our eye hoals. May be you dont take no noatis of it only some times. Say you get woak up suddn in the middl of the nite. 1 min...

Russell Hoban

Its some kynd of thing it aint us but yet its in us. Its looking out thru our eye hoals. May be you dont take no noatis of it only some times. Say you get woak up suddn in the middl of the nite. 1 min...

When I was a child I had a fishless aquarium. My father set it up for me with gravel and plants and pebbles before he'd got the fish and I asked him to leave it as it was for a while. The pump kept up...

Russell Hoban

When I was a child I had a fishless aquarium. My father set it up for me with gravel and plants and pebbles before he'd got the fish and I asked him to leave it as it was for a while. The pump kept up...

Tags: child, father, fish, grecian urn, keats, mermaid

I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER

Russell Hoban

I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER

Yes thats what I done you sorry sods I over the fents and off with the dogs...

Russell Hoban

Yes thats what I done you sorry sods I over the fents and off with the dogs...

O what we ben! And what we come to!

Russell Hoban

O what we ben! And what we come to!

Tags: human condition, progress

Seed of the littleSeed of the wyldSeed of the berning isHart of the chyld . . .Out goes the candlOut goes the liteOut goes my storyAnd so Good Nite

Russell Hoban

Seed of the littleSeed of the wyldSeed of the berning isHart of the chyld . . .Out goes the candlOut goes the liteOut goes my storyAnd so Good Nite

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't k...

Russell Hoban

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't k...

Tags: self knowledge