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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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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
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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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