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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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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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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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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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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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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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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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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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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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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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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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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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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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