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One Quotes by Alice Hoffman
- My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school,…
- Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
- No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
- I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
- Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
- How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain…
- 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…
- There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and…
- If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out…
- Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash…
- 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…
- ...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…
- Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the…
- 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 would…
- When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our…
- I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who…
- Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It…
- He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
- When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
- Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of…
- In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never…
- Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
- Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met…
- Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel…
- I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle