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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Fashions in sin change.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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