Edward Hoagland Short Quotes

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

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No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

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Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

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Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

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Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

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Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

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Essays…hang somewhere on a line between two sturdy poles: This is what I think, and this is what I am.

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Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

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Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

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There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

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The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at centre stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

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Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

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Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

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Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

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The style of the writer has a 'nap' to it, a combination of personality and originality and energetic loose ends that stand up like the nap on a piece of fur and can't be brushed flat.

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

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If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy...

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