Russell Hoban Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

  Russell Hoban

  History, Effort, Language

• A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

  Russell Hoban

  Baby, Art, Philosophy

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

  Russell Hoban

  Art, Philosophy, People

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.37, A&C Black

• And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

  Russell Hoban

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.76, A&C Black

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