Eva Hoffman
Quotes by Eva Hoffman
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The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
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When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all— because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
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When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all— because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
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The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
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The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.
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I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.
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Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.
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There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
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While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
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It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
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The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.
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The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.
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