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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappea...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always hel...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishin...
ALICE HOFFMAN

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading i...
ALICE HOFFMAN

We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back S...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern li...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
ALICE HOFFMAN

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I beli...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Books may well be the only true magic.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be t...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic....
ALICE HOFFMAN

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding al...
ALICE HOFFMAN

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a h...
ALICE HOFFMAN

As for Gus, he had come to Haddan with no appreciation for the human race and no expectations of his...
ALICE HOFFMAN

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
ALICE HOFFMAN

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we c...
ALICE HOFFMAN

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be su...
ALICE HOFFMAN

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it...
ALICE HOFFMAN

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
ALICE HOFFMAN

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are...
ALICE HOFFMAN

All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, f...
ALICE HOFFMAN

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark a...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
ALICE HOFFMAN

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold sme...
ALICE HOFFMAN

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.
ALICE HOFFMAN

The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been cre...
ALICE HOFFMAN

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like...
ALICE HOFFMAN

They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eye...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
ALICE HOFFMAN

... but where do we go?"(Elinor)
"I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan al...
ALICE HOFFMAN

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would s...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and p...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publi...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
ALICE HOFFMAN

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
ALICE HOFFMAN

He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling...
ALICE HOFFMAN

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rat...
ALICE HOFFMAN

The only way to understand a river is to jump into it.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
ALICE HOFFMAN

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Those boys at the counter are too dreamy and young to do anything but drool as they watch Gillian. A...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to c...
ALICE HOFFMAN

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shake...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
ALICE HOFFMAN

Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer wi...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean...
ALICE HOFFMAN

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They bu...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.
ALICE HOFFMAN

You want to know what love is?
It's the thing that ruins you.
ALICE HOFFMAN

I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading d...
ALICE HOFFMAN

What if your brother is dying and you can't stop it. What do you do?"
...
"You help him fi...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articu...
ALICE HOFFMAN

This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That�...
ALICE HOFFMAN

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.
ALICE HOFFMAN

At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo...
ALICE HOFFMAN

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house o...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--...
ALICE HOFFMAN

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was w...
ALICE HOFFMAN

At the heart of his paper was the notion that fairy tales relieved us of our need for order and allo...
ALICE HOFFMAN

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t...
ALICE HOFFMAN

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better no...
ALICE HOFFMAN

What's the difference between love and obsession? Didn't both make you stay up all night, wandering ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town sti...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN

...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.
ALICE HOFFMAN

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more tha...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, as...
ALICE HOFFMAN

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it c...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
ALICE HOFFMAN Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
ALICE HOFFMAN (INCANTATION) When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
ALICE HOFFMAN (INCANTATION) In no time, what I wished for, I became.
ALICE HOFFMAN (GREEN ANGEL) Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
ALICE HOFFMAN (LOCAL GIRLS) The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
ALICE HOFFMAN (THE FORTELLING) My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rat...
ALICE HOFFMAN (PRACTICAL MAGIC) Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
ALICE HOFFMAN (PRACTICAL MAGIC)

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more gr...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never a...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family,...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars o...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade....
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more...
ABBIE HOFFMAN It's beginning to bump up, but we don't think that it's nearly as vulnerable as some other technolog...
ALAN HOFFMAN Everyone is always trying to smoke out the Fed.
ALAN HOFFMAN We will see volatility in the technology sector as always, but longer term we think the U.S. equity ...
ALAN HOFFMAN Intel has become a fairly significant barometer.
ALAN HOFFMAN I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,
ALAN HOFFMAN There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid ar...
ALAN HOFFMAN This certainly makes the case for investing in companies that export. Their costs are dollar based a...
ALAN HOFFMAN The problem for the next seven weeks will be this tug-of-war. Until we start seeing earnings taking ...
ALAN HOFFMAN I would buy good retailers -- especially on dips,
ALAN HOFFMAN In this volatile market, the best procedure is to buy on dips. There are going to be days when the m...
ALAN HOFFMAN

Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.
REID HOFFMAN Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.
LISA HOFFMAN

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as gr...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tent...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're ...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experienc...
BOB HOFFMAN

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be n...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Blame is for God and small children.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
BARBARA HOFFMAN

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a ...
EVA HOFFMAN

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.
REID HOFFMAN

I usually allocate time each week to work on topics outside of the normal workflow. These topics can...
REID HOFFMAN I am deathly allergic to cats. I mean, I love all animals, but they're not my animal of choice.
RICK HOFFMAN At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President T...
PAUL HOFFMAN

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats a...
DOUG HOFFMAN

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular th...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty t...
REID HOFFMAN

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions mad...
REID HOFFMAN

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations mo...
REID HOFFMAN

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strength...
REID HOFFMAN

Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.
REID HOFFMAN

I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've ...
REID HOFFMAN

I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.
REID HOFFMAN

Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 1...
REID HOFFMAN

As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a fiv...
REID HOFFMAN

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, ...
REID HOFFMAN

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who...
REID HOFFMAN

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they...
REID HOFFMAN

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn shou...
REID HOFFMAN

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.
REID HOFFMAN

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
REID HOFFMAN

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and...
REID HOFFMAN

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is s...
REID HOFFMAN

The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the...
REID HOFFMAN

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca...
REID HOFFMAN

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
REID HOFFMAN

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
REID HOFFMAN

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
REID HOFFMAN

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really po...
REID HOFFMAN

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Act...
REID HOFFMAN If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumpi...
PAUL HOFFMAN Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in...
PAUL HOFFMAN There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then...
MARY HOFFMAN The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe...
ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year.
ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN

If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN

The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

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