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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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Name:   Russell Hoban
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Feb 4, 1925
 
Profession:   Novelist
 
 
 
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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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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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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
 
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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
 
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
 
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