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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

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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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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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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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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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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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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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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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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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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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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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