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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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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