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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Ridiculous
Evil
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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 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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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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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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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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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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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 feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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