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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Worth
Nothing
Love

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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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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 think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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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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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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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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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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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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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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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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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
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