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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
Universe
Kids
Happenings
Happening
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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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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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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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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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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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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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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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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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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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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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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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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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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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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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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