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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Happenings
Happening
Adults
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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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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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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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 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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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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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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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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