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Alice Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (226)

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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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