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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
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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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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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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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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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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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'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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