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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.

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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
Good
Quick
Shot
Shots

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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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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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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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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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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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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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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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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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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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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
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