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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.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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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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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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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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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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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. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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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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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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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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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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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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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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