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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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