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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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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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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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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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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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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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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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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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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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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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