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...who I am to talk? I dream of rain.Alice Hoffman
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From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library... At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...Alice Hoffman
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Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.Alice Hoffman
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...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.Alice Hoffman
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There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.Alice Hoffman
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I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.Alice Hoffman
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But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.Alice Hoffman
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I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.Alice Hoffman
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She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.Alice Hoffman
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I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.Alice Hoffman
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Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.Alice Hoffman