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Hobo Quotes

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Heather O'Neill
“I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.”
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

Jack London
“Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean鈥攁n ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance”
Jack London, The Road

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Clothes are a homeless man鈥檚 home.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Jack London
“He cut short my request for something to eat, snapping out, "I don't believe you want to work."
Now this was irrelevant. I hadn't said anything about work. The topic of conversation I had introduced was "food." In fact, I didn't want to work. I wanted to take the westbound overland that night.”
Jack London, The Road

Jack London
“We took up a collection and sent a telegram to the authorities of that town. The text of the message was that eighty-five healthy, hungry hoboes would arrive about noon and that it would be a good idea to have dinner ready for them.”
Jack London, The Road
tags: hobo, humor

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Louis Sachar
“What do you eat?鈥� she asked.
鈥淢ulligan stew,鈥� said Bob. 鈥淢y friends and I collect scraps of food all day, and then we cook it up in a big pot and share it. It鈥檚 always different, but very tasty.鈥�
鈥淲hy is it called mulligan stew?鈥� asked Stephen.
鈥淭here was once a hobo named Mulligan,鈥� said Bob. 鈥淗e made the first mulligan stew.鈥�
鈥淲as he a good cook?鈥� asked Todd.
鈥淣o, he was eaten by cannibals.”
Louis Sachar, Wayside School Is Falling Down

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“On the eighth day, the forty-year-old hobo said to Billy: "This ain't bad. I can be comfortable anywhere."
"You can?" said Billy.
On the ninth day the hobo died. So it goes. His last words were: "You think this is bad? This ain't bad.”
Kurt Vonnegut
tags: hobo, war, wwii

Nobuyuki Fukumoto
“You know... the word "homeless", gives you this very negative image. A filthy raggedy hobo... it's no good. It's too demeaning of a word if you ask me. It's just not politically correct enough... If it were up to me, I'd rather we be called "residentially challenged”
Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Saiky艒 Densetsu Kurosawa 9

Brenna Ehrlich
“Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.”
Brenna Ehrlich, Placid Girl

Tracy Kidder
“En route to California I had a few drinks with an American executive for Falstaff Brewing Company who said he'd been a hobo from '37 to '39. He talked about a friend of his who had lost his legs beneath a freight train and died. He told me he knew something about farm labor contractors. "Killers," he called them. And said it again, "Killers.”
Tracy Kidder, The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Charity begins on the street when you are homeless.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Look at your 鈥渉obophobia.鈥�
If there is one group of people our majority population fear and despise it is rootless, nomadic individuals with no stake in society. They offend simply by 鈥渙pting out鈥濃€攐f property, commitments, beliefs, relationships, expectations. Many such people have turned their backs on a society they don鈥檛 understand or can鈥檛 cope with. They have absconded from the pressures to compete, to perform, to sell out, to join in the dance of bureaucracy, money worries, cohabitation, housekeeping, procreation, you-name-it. Society is right to fear such people because they embody the sane rejection of many insanely onerous 鈥渃ivilized鈥� values that would collapse under scrutiny. Strangely, though, society also makes an idol of Jesus, apparently a nomad who had no possessions or family ties, who walked away from a promising career in carpentry, a hobo if ever there was one. (We haven鈥檛, however, made a popular hero out of Diogenes, the ultimate dirty Greek hobo.)”
Colin Feltham, Keeping Ourselves in the Dark

Zoran 膯iri膰
“Nastavio sam da nju拧kam letnji suton. Nema adrenalina bez benzina. To膷kovi su strugali, frikcija se poja膷avala. Zavirivao sam u senovite prolaze tr啪nih centara: profesionalni la啪njaci se uvaljuju profesionalnim amaterima. Dauntaun je pomirljivo tonuo u daun. Prizor li膷i na razglednicu unutra拧njosti. Glavna vena Ni拧vila je definitivno predozirana bednjikavim gruvom. Ovaj grad je elementarna nepogoda. Sve je manje fliperana i klubova sa d啪uboks aparatima. Sve je manje poslasti膷ara u kojima slu啪e bozu i kadif. Sve je manje knji啪ara u kojima se prodaju knjige. Sve je manje dobrih stripova i porno 膷asopisa na buvljacima. Sve je manje bioskopa koji ne zvrje prazni i gde dronjavo platno ne li膷i na paravan u seoskim ambulantama. Nema patine u Ni拧vilu, osim one 拧vercovane - za brzu prodaju i brzu upotrebu.

Jebi ga, ponekad mi nedostaje moji grad.Sve je vi拧e neona na pogre拧nim mestima, i sve je vi拧e pogre拧nih mesta, i sve je vi拧e ljudi koji umiru od 啪elje da se zabave i ispri膷aju nekome kako je zabavno bilo. "Niko ovde nije poludeo od zabave", rekla je Kinki kada je kupila nove uredjaje za koje nije bilo dovoljno da ih uklju膷i拧 u struju pa da prorade. Morao si da povezuje拧 komponente, tuma膷e膰i nacrtana uputstva da bi se, napokon, pojavila slika i zvuk - jasniji i 膷istiji od prethodnih slika i zvukova.”
Zoran 膯iri膰, Hobo
tags: hobo, nis

Louis Sachar
“The hobo wore old black shoes that also looked like they were too big for him, but that might
have been because he wasn鈥檛 wearing any socks.”
Louis Sachar, Wayside School Is Falling Down

GLEN NESBITT
“Nine-year-old me dressed as a homeless person, but I had a badge, fake mustache, and aviators. I was HoboCop, naturally.”
GLEN NESBITT, BREAK OUT OF HEAVEN