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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

Alice Hoffman

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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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...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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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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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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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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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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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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