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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
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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