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The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

Russell Hoban

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Russell Hoban
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 4
Died: 2011
Died: December 13
Librettist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Lansdale
Pennsylvania
Russell Conwell Hoban
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