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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

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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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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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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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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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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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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 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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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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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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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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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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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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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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