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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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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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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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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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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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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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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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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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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 sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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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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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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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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