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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Think
Control
External
Thinking
Nature
Tied
World
Around
Bound
May
Connection
Trying
Bounds
Every
Connections
Snowstorm
Believe
Deny
Snowstorms
Time
Fate
Drought

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