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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Looking
Understand
People
Ignore
Logic
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