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I'm a really eclectic reader.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Eclectic
Reader
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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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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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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'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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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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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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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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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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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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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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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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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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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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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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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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