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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 have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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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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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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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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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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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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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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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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