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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Fashions in sin change.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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