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"Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive."
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Explore more quotes by Alice Hoffman
"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."
"I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told."
"I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay."
"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold."
"I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes."
"Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!"
"I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life."
"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
"Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage."
"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."
"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."
"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."
"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
"We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic."
"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."
"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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