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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
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Burden

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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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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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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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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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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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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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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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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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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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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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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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