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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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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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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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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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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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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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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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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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