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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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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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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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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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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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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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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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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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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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