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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Dream
Endings
Never
Disappointment
People
Believed
Luck
Dreams
Told
Reversed
Happen
Lasted
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Disappointments

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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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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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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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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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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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