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Eric Hoffer Quotes

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Topics

Hope Soul Disappointment Too Much

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

People Say Atheist Always Surprised

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

Love Character Grow Television Him

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Roberto Burle Marx

Garden Salad Did

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

Myself Best Doing Attention Large

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

Michael Schumacher

Car People Me Drive Feel Racing

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Business Wind Know Port Sailing

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Lie Lost Nation Ability Out Makes

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

Women Reflection Black Important

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

Experience Strong Learn Find Quiet

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

Alone Tea Me Plan You Know

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Chance Honor Know More Rare Shoot

Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?

Experience Competition People Gay Us

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