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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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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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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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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 wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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