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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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 judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Styles in wit change so.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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