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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
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Playwright
Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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