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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
Best
Things
Never
Secrets
Men
Secret
Tell
Keep
Stories
Women

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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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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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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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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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The best way to die is when your living
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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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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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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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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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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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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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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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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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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