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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
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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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.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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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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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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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 sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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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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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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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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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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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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