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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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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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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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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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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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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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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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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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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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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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