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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.

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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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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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Books may well be the only true magic.
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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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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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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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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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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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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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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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