Eva Hoffman Quotes

• Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

  Eva Hoffman

  Laughter, Play, Lightning

  Eva Hoffman (2011). “Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language”, p.118, Random House

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• The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

  Eva Hoffman

  Joy, Perception, Form

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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.

  Eva Hoffman

  Passion, Past, Knowing

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• Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.

  Eva Hoffman

  Mean, Storm, Inward

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• There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

  Eva Hoffman

  Humor, Gleam, Faces

  Eva Hoffman (2014). “Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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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.

  Eva Hoffman

  Missing, Authenticity, Found

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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.

  Eva Hoffman

  Justice, Diversity, Perception

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• Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

  Eva Hoffman

  Looks, Satisfaction, Ifs

  Eva Hoffman (2011). “Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language”, p.41, Random House

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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.

  Eva Hoffman

  Memories, Past, Conscious

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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.

  Eva Hoffman

  Ideas, Different, Veins

  Eva Hoffman (2014). “Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe”, p.202, Faber & Faber

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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.

  Eva Hoffman

  Perception, Vision, World

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• The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

  Eva Hoffman

  Paradise, Wonder

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The worst losses come at night.

  Eva Hoffman

  Loss, Night, Worst

  Eva Hoffman (2011). “Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language”, p.107, Random House

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