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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Listen
Trust
Voice
Everyone
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Choose

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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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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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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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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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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.
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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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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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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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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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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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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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