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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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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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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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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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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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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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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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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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