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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Something
Pretending
Crime
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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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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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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