Edward Hoagland Quotes

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.
Edward Hoagland

Him, Enjoy, Try

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.
Edward Hoagland

Life, Best, Live

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Edward Hoagland

Force, Events, Talents

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.
Edward Hoagland

Chosen, None, Believed

A writer's work is to witness things.
Edward Hoagland

Work, Writer, Witness

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.
Edward Hoagland

Play, Old, Characters

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.
Edward Hoagland

Alone, Feeling, Black

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.
Edward Hoagland

Life, Time, Mind

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
Edward Hoagland

Old, Land, Indian

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
Edward Hoagland

Women, Men, Long

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
Edward Hoagland

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.
Edward Hoagland

God, May, Sense

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
Edward Hoagland

Talk, Childhood, Badly

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.
Edward Hoagland

Life, Care, Big

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 21, 1932

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