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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Community
Town
Whether
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Everybody
Boarding
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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