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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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New York City
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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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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 loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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