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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Boring
Sky
Blue
Black
Suckers
Love
Maniacs
Unrequited
Sucker
Weeping

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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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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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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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