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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desire #different #every #intense #intense desire

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#consider #human #human body #human mind #mind

Children are the keys of paradise. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#keys #paradise

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#always #different #difficult #growing #growing up

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bit #children #find #free #free time

Blame is for God and small children. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#children #god #small #small children

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#human-nature #parenting #death

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#army #because #college #first #go