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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
Dreams
Told
Reversed
Happen
Lasted
Happens
Disappointments
Dream
Endings
Never
Disappointment
People
Believed
Luck

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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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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 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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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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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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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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