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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Burden
Given
Away
Things
Never

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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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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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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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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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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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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
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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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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 think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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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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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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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 think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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