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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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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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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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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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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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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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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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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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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
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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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