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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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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
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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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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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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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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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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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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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