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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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New York City
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He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
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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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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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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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