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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
World
Outrun
Paid
Understood
Attention
Cannot
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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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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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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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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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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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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