Eva Hoffman Quotes

#1. A woman should love with her mind. Let men love with their hearts.

Eva Hoffman

#2. 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

#3. Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams ... A place of peace and harmony ... that's the kind of land I invision.

Masashi Kishimoto

#4. The town slowly wakes up around him with its foreign-made cars and its statistics and credit card debt and all its other crap.

Fredrik Backman

#5. 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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#6. Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.

Alison Thompson

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

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#8. 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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#9. There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

Louis Farrakhan

#10. I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

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#11. 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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#12. Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

Eva Hoffman

#13. Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.

Bruce L. Shelley

#17. 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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#18. Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.

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#19. The worst losses come at night.

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

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#21. I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.

Dani Shapiro

#22. To be an adult is to be close to death.

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#23. I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

Spencer Dryden

#24. 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.

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#25. If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences. A

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

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#27. Sometimes I long to forget ... It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

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

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#29. How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle
and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind

Dakota Lane

#30. I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Michael Grant

#31. Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color.
Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend.

Charlaine Harris