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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
Living
Best
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Dies

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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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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 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 just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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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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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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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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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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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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