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Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it.Russell Hoban
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All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.Russell Hoban
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I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.Russell Hoban
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There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.Russell Hoban
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The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.Russell Hoban
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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 know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.Russell Hoban