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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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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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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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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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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 think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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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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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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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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