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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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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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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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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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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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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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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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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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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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