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The best way to die is when your living

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Dies
Living
Best
Way

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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
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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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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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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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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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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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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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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