19 Quotations by Edward Hoagland
- 1. Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the ...
- 2. Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr ...
- 3. City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill ti ...
- 4. Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife ...
- 5. If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he c ...
- 6. In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of i ...
- 7. It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. ...
- 8. Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
- 9. Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the ...
- 10. Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
- 11. Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders ...
- 12. Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
- 13. Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhi ...
- 14. The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if s ...
- 15. There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she be ...
- 16. There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
- 17. There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its sourc ...
- 18. To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- ...
- 19. True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the s ...
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