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I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t — Philip Seymour Hoffman
His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors act intelligent, but P — John le Carré
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. — Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if — Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them — Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how — Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
They weren't true stories — they were better than that.
Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of you have — John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will — and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.
Even if atheists were right--that prayer is wishful thinking--they are right only in relation to God, not in relation to — R. Joseph Hoffmann
...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like h — Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul. — Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole — Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. — Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation. — Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the — Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering — there is some good or positive in this experience.
...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires o — Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?''I should think so,' — James Hain Friswell
...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there — Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God