“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“- Why you? - (...) I’m the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger –… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration —… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break.… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That was a rhetorical question, one asked solely to produce an effect and not elicit a reply.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“To be sociable is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most of whom are dull, perverse and ignorant and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor. — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
