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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
Medicine
Movies
Best
Sometimes
Really

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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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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.
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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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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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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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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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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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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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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