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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
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People

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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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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.
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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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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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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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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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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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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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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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