“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“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, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”
Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language“The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.”
Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language“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, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language