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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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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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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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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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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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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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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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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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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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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 plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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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 think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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