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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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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.
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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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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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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