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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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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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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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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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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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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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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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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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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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