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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Done
Right
Sometimes
Feels
Thing
Wrong

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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 growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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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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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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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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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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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!
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
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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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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
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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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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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