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> [We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/we-new-yorkers-see-more-death-and-violence-than-most-soldiers-do-grow/)

[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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