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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Never
Secrets
Men
Secret
Tell
Keep
Stories
Women
Best
Things

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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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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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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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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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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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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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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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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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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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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 read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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