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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Thinking
Fantastic
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Seem
Seems
Real
Threads
Much
Cloth
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Distinction

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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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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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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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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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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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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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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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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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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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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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