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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Luck
Perspective
Thing
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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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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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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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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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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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 only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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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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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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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'm a really eclectic reader.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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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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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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