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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Would
Hide
Whomever
World
Trees
Wept
People
Stranger
Sidewalk
Understood
Despised
Tree
Truest
Sidewalks
Sort
Kissed
Smacked
Nature
Strangers
Bled
Even
Revealed
Applauded

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