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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Anyone
Bite
Stills
Deserves
Still
Bites
May
Creature
Deserve
Creatures
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Trusts
Wise
Serpent

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