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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
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Towns
School
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Small
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Everybody
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
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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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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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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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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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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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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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