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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Fairy
Tales
Feel
Feels
Love

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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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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
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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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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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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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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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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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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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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 have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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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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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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