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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Impossible
Death
Deathly
Judgement
Circle
Innocence
Circles
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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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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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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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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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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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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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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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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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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