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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Women

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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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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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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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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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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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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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