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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Life
Drown
Burn
Lies
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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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