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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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New York City
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of 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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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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