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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."
"Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers."
"No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading."
"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
"CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there."
Explore more quotes by Alice Hoffman
"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?"
"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."
"Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected."
"She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless."
"And so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie."
"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 second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood."
"I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was."
"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."
"He carried so much suffering that it radiated out in waves. Sorrow is like that: whenever a person runs, it comes after him; it leaves an endless trail of pain."
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