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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
Given
Away
Things
Never
Burden

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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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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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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 saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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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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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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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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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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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 love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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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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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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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. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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