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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
True
Instant
Eternal

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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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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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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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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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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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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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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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