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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
People
Drawn
Carry
Inside
Stories

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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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