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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Instant
Eternal
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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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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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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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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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 was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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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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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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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 always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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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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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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