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“I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?” quote by Alice Hoffman — Download Open image

“I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?”

Alice Hoffman

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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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“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.”

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“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning and thunder, or the true love you won't ever have. Life is brushing your teeth and making breakfast for your children and not thinking about things, and as it turns out, Sally is first-rate at all…

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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

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“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.”

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I'm a really eclectic reader.

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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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“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.”

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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There…

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“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

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