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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
Yearn
Destroy
Often
Men

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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.
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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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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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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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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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