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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Stronger
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Feels

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Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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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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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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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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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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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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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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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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