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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
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New York City
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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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 always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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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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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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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.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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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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