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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Love
Humane
Especially
Fiction
Science

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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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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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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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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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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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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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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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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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