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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
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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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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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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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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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