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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

Lillian Hellman

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
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Librettist
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Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Styles in wit change so.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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