5 Quotes & Sayings By Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman is the author of seventeen books, including The Sephardi Journey, One Thousand Years in Tzfat, and Eva's Notebooks, which was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and The New Yorker. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Yom Kippur Prize in 1994; the National Jewish Book Award in 2000; and the B'nai B'rith Literature Award in 2000.

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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 am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies. Eva Hoffman
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The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. Eva Hoffman
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Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. Eva Hoffman
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I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth. Eva Hoffman