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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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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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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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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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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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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 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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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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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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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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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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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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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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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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