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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Disputes
Argue
Arguing
Ridiculous
Evil
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Reasonably

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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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