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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Sometimes
Really
Medicine
Movies
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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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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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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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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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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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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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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