
Entry (1955)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Entry (1955)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: It has been my experience that there is no substitute for time where thinking is concerned. Why is it so? The answer seems to be that in many cases to think means to be able to allow the mind to stray from the task at hand. The mind must be able to be "elsewhere." This needs time.
Entry (1955)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
“Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above all a quiet mind.”
Letter in a private collection quoted in Gillian Lindsay - The Story of the Lark Rise Writer 1990 ISBN 9781873855539
Literary Observations
“Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.”
Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
“Tension is something I have plenty of in life. I don't need it elsewhere.”
Strange Horizons interview (2008)
Context: I never read an author twice if I can't trust him or her to make it come out right. I never read an author twice if he writes the kind of books where everyone and everything is in tension from page one to the last paragraph of the last page, like that dreadful TV show, 24. Tension is something I have plenty of in life. I don't need it elsewhere.
“I am able to admit two distinct trains of thought to my mind at the same time.”
The Book of My Life (1930), Ch. 13
“(…)The body-mind is like a room. It is there, but I need not live in it all the time.”
Body
Source: I am That, P.153.
“What is liberal education,” p. 3
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)