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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Fortune
Sorrow
Forever
Turns
Take
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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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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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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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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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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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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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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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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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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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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