"No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way."

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Source : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.69, Penguin

Alice Hoffman

#Childhood Quotes #Way Quotes #Persons Quotes

“If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”
“I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.”
“Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.”

Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.198, Vintage
“My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.”
“You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well.”
“When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. That is, I don't want simply to pay homage to Borges, but rather the contrary: to recall his commonplaces.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.”
“I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.”

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