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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Hoffman

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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 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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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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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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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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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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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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