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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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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 judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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