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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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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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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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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 what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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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 they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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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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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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