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Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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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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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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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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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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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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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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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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