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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
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New York City
New York
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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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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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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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