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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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Stories
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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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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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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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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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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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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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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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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