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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/animals-used-to-provide-a-lowlife-way-to-kill-and-get-away-with-it-as/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

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## More by Edward Hoagland

> [When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/when-i-was-18-i-worked-with-the-ringling-brothers-circus-taking-care/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/henry-david-thoreau-who-never-earned-much-of-a-living-or-sustained-a/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/there-is-a-time-of-life-somewhere-between-the-sullen-fugues-of/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/the-zest-for-life-of-those-unusual-men-and-women-who-make-a-great/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/sophistication-is-another-word-for-that-inventive-mix-of-tolerance/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/the-novelist-screws-up-his-courage-in-order-to-invest-another-two-or/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/once-i-climbed-into-a-mountain-lion-s-cage-and-she-bounded-at-me-and/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/poetry-is-engendered-in-solitude-so-what-better-meter-for-it-than-the/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/there-often-seems-to-be-a-playfulness-to-wise-people-as-if-either/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/the-question-of-whether-it-s-god-s-green-earth-is-not-at-center-stage/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/many-people-have-believed-that-they-were-chosen-but-none-more-baldly/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/animals-used-to-provide-a-lowlife-way-to-kill-and-get-away-with-it-as/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/silence-is-exhilarating-at-first-as-noise-is-but-there-is-a-sweetness/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/men-greet-each-other-with-a-sock-on-the-arm-women-with-a-hug-and-the/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

> [Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/man-is-different-from-animals-in-that-he-speculates-a-high-risk/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

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