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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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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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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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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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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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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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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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