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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
Forever
Turns
Take
Good
Quick
Shot
Shots
Fortune
Sorrow

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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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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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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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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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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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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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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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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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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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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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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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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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