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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.

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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Grief
Cold
Share
Speak
Nothing
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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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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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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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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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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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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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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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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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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