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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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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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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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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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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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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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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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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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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 never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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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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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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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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