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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Fashions in sin change.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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