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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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