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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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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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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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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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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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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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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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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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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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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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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 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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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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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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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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