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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
High
Publishing
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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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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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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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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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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