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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Always
Working
Time
Mother
Thinking
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Mothers
Feels
Mom
Children
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Work
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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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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Books may well be the only true magic.
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