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What men yearn for they often destroy.

Alice Hoffman

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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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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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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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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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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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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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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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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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