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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.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Sorrow
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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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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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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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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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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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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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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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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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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