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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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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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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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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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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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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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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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