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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
Stayed
Forget
Stories
Wanted
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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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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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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The best way to die is when your living
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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