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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
Humane
Especially
Fiction
Science
Love

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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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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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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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 is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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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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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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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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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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