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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Walk
Walks
Always

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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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