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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Worthy
Prove

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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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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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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 feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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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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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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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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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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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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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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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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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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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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