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They weren't true stories they were better than that.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Better
Weren
True
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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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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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