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For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

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Russell Hoban

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

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There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

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

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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

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When I write a book, I don't have a plan or an outline. The characters move the action, and the action develops the characters. When I write a book, I become an actor, really, taking the role of the person who is speaking or acting at the time, and so their reactions to whatever they see are my reactions.

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What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

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