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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
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
Alice Hoffman
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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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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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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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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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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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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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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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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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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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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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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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
Alice Hoffman