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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Outsider
Outsiders
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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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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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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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 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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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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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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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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