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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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