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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Instant
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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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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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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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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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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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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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