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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#around #cause #change #ground #other

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#about #always #children #feel #find

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

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dark #definitely #given #i #i do

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

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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#always #different #difficult #growing #growing up

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.' ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#asked #came #come #doing #friend

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#believe #bound #connection #control #deny

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

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