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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Even
Stayed
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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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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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The best way to die is when your living
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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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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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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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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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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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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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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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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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