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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Pretending
Crime
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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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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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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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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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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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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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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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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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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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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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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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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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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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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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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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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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