{"author":"Paul Hoffman","author_id":"Paul+Hoffman","total_quotes":32,"quotes":[{"text":"Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["mathematics"],"id":8367,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["action","apprehension","beauty","bosco","cale","consider","crazy","devil","doubt","facilities","form","four","idea","indeed","insane","last","life","mad","man","men","moments-of-doubt","movement","people","piece-of-work","question","quintessence-of-dust","sanity","things","tomas","true","ugly","world"],"id":30914,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["honesty"],"id":106800,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["salvation"],"id":115631,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"...His soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["anger","arbell","cale","god","hand","hate","hoffman","left","love","pain","paul","resentment","tomas"],"id":159274,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"People treat the present moment as if it is just a stopping point on the way to some great goal that will happen in the future, and then they are surprised that the long day closes; they look back on their life and see that the things they let go by so unregarded, the small pleasures they dismissed so easily were in fact the true significance of their lives- all the time these things were the great and wonderful successes and purpose of their existence.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["life","perspective"],"id":177205,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["hell"],"id":185024,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"...The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["child","children","damage","damaged","done","ever","forever","forty-nine","four","god","hand","heart","hoffman","kids","kill","last","left","life","love","never","pain","paul","things","true","undone"],"id":202878,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["acids","cale","fourth","god","greatest","hand","hoffman","human","last","left","man","men","paul","pity","respect","self-pity","solvation","solvent","soul","tomas","universal"],"id":210625,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["air","always","arbell","around","breath","breeze","cale","cold","dead","forever","gloom","happy","hoffman","kiss","life","love","near","paul","soft","soul","spirit","temple","tomas","touch","unseen","warm"],"id":211094,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}