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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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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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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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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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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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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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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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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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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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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's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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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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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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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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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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