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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#arbitrary #clinical #distinctions #illegal #legal

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bit #books #characters #dreams #formed

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#labor #mobility #only #potential #utilized

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#disappears #every #every time #everything #finish

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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#being #considered #domain #fairy #fairy tales

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #book #did #feel #go

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#being #carry #cheated #child #feed

I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#daydreaming #death #history #innocence #love

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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#between #both #cloth #concerned #distinction