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What else is there to write about than love and loss?

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Loss
Write
Else
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Love

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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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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.
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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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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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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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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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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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