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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
World
Escape
Break
Another
Take
Great
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Way

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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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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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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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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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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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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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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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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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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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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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