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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Take
Feel
Enduring
Feels
Meaningful
Trying
Guilty
Something
Endure
Make
Sorrow
Always
Jobs
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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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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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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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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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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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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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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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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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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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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 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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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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