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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.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Become
Outlawed
Book
Memorizing
Nothing
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Love
Carry
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Childhood
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Fahrenheit
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Bradbury

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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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