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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
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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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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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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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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
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The best way to die is when your living
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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