Eva Hoffman Quotes
If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.
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Genius is the art of taking pains.
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I really don't think this show is going to work, ... ...I'd like to see them put a lion or a tiger on the island, but I really don't think that would happen.
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I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
