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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Screenwriter
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New York City
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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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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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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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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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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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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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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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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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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