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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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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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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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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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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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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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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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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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