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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
Learn
Discover
Silent
Speech
Among
Listen
Perhaps
Silence
Possible

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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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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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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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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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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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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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The best way to die is when your living
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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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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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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