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Quote by Eva Hoffman

“The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.”

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Eva Hoffman is an accomplished writer, born on July 1, 1945. Her works span a wide range of themes, including history, culture, and personal experiences. more

“I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'”

Men Writing Long Made Age Today Used Animal Secret Tree Promise Bird Mad Plant Fishes Drawing Old Age Old Man Construction Insects Counting I Promise Dots Plant A Tree

Author:Hokusai

“This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.”

Made Force Nice Drama Pages Bones Noir Blunt Playing Nice

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down. This is fantasy at its best.”

War Stories Heaven Sex Fantasy Hell Fire Magic Blood Angel Ice Demon Royalty Fire And Ice Heaven Hell

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.”

Looks May Real Today White Sun Sky Tomorrow Blue Dull Sunset Digital Yellow Packages Real Things Stunning Velvet Blue Sky Lifeless Unreliable Hypnotic Yellow Sun

Author:Will Christopher Baer

“When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”

Ideas War States America United United States Becoming Manifest Utopia Schizophrenia Dreamland

Author:Steve Erickson

“In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.”

Thinking

Author:Steve Erickson

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”

People Giving Pages Profile Census

Book:Lexicon

Source: Lexicon

“What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.”

Body Special Possibility Naked Something Special

Book:Syrup: A Novel

Source: Syrup: A Novel

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