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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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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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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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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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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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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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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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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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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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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