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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

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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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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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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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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The best way to die is when your living
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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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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