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What men yearn for they often destroy.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Men
Yearn
Destroy
Often

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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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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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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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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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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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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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