“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,… — Eva Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
“For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things,… — Eva Hoffman Emigration Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — Eva Hoffman Agony 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 Faces 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… — Eva Hoffman Authenticity 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 Conscience 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… — Eva Hoffman Acting Copy Share Image
Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm,… — Eva Hoffman Anger Copy Share Image
Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction. — Eva Hoffman Looks 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… — Eva Hoffman Different Copy Share Image
“A woman should love with her mind. Let men love with their hearts.” — Eva Hoffman Love 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 Form Copy Share Image
I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement… — Eva Hoffman Achievement Copy Share Image
The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence. — Eva Hoffman Authenticity Copy Share Image
“No, I’m no patriot, nor was I ever allowed to be. And yet, the country of my childhood lives within me with… — Eva Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation. — Eva Hoffman Communication 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
“I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the… — Eva Hoffman Language Copy Share Image
