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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Forges
Distance
Lying
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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The best way to die is when your living
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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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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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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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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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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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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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