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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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