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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 people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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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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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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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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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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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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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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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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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 moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.
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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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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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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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