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People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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