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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
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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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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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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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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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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