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The evening had turned sweet and blue.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Sweet
Evening
Turned
Blue

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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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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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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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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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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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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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