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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Rooms
Talent
Even
People
Curse
Disappear
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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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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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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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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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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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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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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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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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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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