Quotes by Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland

American Novelist, Essayist

Lived from: 1932 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 december 1932

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
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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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  • Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
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  • Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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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  • 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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  • 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 the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Edward Hoagland?

The two most famous quotes from Edward Hoagland are:

  • "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."
  • "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."

When did Edward Hoagland live?

Edward Hoagland was born in 1932.