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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Alice Childress

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Alice Childress
Age: 77 †
Born: 1916
Born: October 12
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
Actor
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Playwright
Screenwriter
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Charleston
South Carolina
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Snowflakes
Humans
Snowflake
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Some truth has no nourishment in it.
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I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.
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I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
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The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
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Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
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