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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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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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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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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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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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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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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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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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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
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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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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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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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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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