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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Writers talk too much.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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