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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Drawn
Carry
Inside
Stories
People

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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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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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The best way to die is when your living
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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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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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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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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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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