While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It is a sunny fall afternoon and I’m engaged in one of my favorite pastimes—picking chestnuts. I’m playing alone under the spreading, leafy, protective tree. My mother is sitting on a bench nearby, rocking the buggy in which my sister is asleep. The city, beyond the lacy wall of trees, is humming with gentle noises. The sun has just passed… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share
“For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things, a rite of initiation: initiation into the language of the subculture within which I happen to live, into a way of explaining myself to myself. But gradually, it becomes a project of translating backward. The way to jump… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
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… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“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… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
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… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
