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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
Good
Luck
Perspective
Thing

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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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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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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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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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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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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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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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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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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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The best way to die is when your living
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
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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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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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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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