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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
Stories
Wanted
Even
Stayed
Forget

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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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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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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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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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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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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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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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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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