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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
Especially
Fiction
Science
Love
Humane

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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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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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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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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 saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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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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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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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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