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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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