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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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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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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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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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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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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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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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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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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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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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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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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 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 voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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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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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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