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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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Screenwriter
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New York City
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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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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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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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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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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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 wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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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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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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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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The best way to die is when your living
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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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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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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