"It may be that just as tonality recurs……" — Eva Hoffman
"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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13 Quotes by Eva Hoffman
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- Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in…
- Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
- Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.
- The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
- The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its…
- I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past-…
- Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past…
- The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.
- The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most…
- There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a…
- There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange…
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