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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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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.
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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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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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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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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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