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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Silence
Possible
Learn
Discover
Silent
Speech
Among
Listen
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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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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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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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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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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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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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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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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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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