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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
Writer
New York City
New York
Backwards
Novelists
Forward
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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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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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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