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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Meant
Moved
Changed
Human
Humans
Things
Time

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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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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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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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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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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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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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Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.
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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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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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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