Quotes by Edward Hoagland - Page 1

A writer's work is to witness things.
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Witness
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A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.
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Littles
Mountain
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Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
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Avid
Columns
Loneliness
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To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
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Travel
Sometimes
Speed
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If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.
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Love
Knives
Sleep
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No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.
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Clarinet
Musical
Panache
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There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.
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Kind
Sanctimonious
Two
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Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
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Events
Butt
Talents
Wakes
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Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.
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Men
Animal
Risk
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Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.
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Chosen
People
Texan
People More Than
Believed
None
Texans
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There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
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Childhood
Periods
Badly
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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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Horse
Meter
Solitude
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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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Children
Suicidal
Would Be
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
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Color
Snow
Track
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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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Running
Women
Hands
Hug
Sock
Men Women Long
Arm
Women Men Long
Greet
Long Run
Wears
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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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Biology
Chemistry
Writing
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Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.
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Cities
People
Tolerance
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Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
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Claws
Lions
Mountain
Paws
Bounded
Cage
Climbed
Lion
Paw
Withdrawn
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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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Men
Sports
Competition
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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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Animal
Character
Play
Saga
Acute
Animals
Leeway
Parts
Stylized
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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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Opportunity
Genocide
Indian
Land
Tribes
Guard
Masses
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When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
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Circus
Life Care My Life
Cats
Brothers
Life My Life Care
Deliberately
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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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Love
Believe
Past
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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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Ocean
Order
Two
Years
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
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God
Dying
Earth
Green
Regularity
Center
Except
Reminded
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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
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Nature
Animal
Becoming
Dog
Enjoy
Oneself
Order
Possibility
Silly
Train
Try
Him
Merely
Partly
Point
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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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Believe
Doors
Summer
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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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Health
Silence
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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Funny
Life
Appreciated
Behave
Country
Life Is Short
Life Best Long
Short
Principle
Savor
Variations
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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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Future
Time
Better Life
Cherish
Country
Eye
Notion
Prepared
Life Time Better
Life Time Mind
Ahead
Although
Life Time City
City People
Rule
Whereas
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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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Crazy
Philosophical
Thinking
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
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Religion
Atheism
Vivid
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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
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Cities
Country
People
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days
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Dog
Exercise
Slave Owners
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Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
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Bears
Brotherly
Exhilaration
House
Night
Stones
Two
Vermont
Encountered
Hunter
Picked
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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
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Age
Cities
Summer
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If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.
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Men
Human Nature
World
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.
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Wisdom
Wise
Fun
People
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We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.
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Long Ago
Needs
Soldier
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Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.
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Running
Animal
Hurt
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.
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Life
Men
Divorce
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If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
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Journey
Sports
Rivers
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.
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Cancer
Heart
Suicidal
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Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.
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Days Off
One Day
Parent
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The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.
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Life
Disappointment
Loss
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