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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Kind
Trust
Never
Knowing
Anyone
Tell
Cannot
Earth
Soul
Reason
Survive

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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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