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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
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New York City
New York
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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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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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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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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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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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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