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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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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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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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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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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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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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