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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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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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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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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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