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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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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 was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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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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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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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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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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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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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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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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