#lan

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#because #into #keep #picture #subject

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#language #leader #must #practical #realist

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#afloat #arms #balance #bottom #flailing

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#failure #forms #lands #new #often

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dark #definitely #given #i #i do

At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#another #beginning #did #drafting #education

I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again. ↗

— Robert Walser

#melancholy #music #pain #death

I try not to plan that too much. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#much #plan #too #too much #try

If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#enclave #fade #outpost #razorland #death