Eva Hoffman famous quotes

03-28-2025

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
-- Eva Hoffman

#Laughter #Play #Lightning
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
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
The worst losses come at night.
-- Eva Hoffman

#Loss #Night #Worst
Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.
-- Eva Hoffman

#Looks #Satisfaction
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
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 #Perception #Savages
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
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
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
The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.
-- Eva Hoffman

#Paradise #Wonder
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
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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