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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
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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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'm a really eclectic reader.
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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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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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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