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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.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
Foolishness
Pleasures
Punishment
Rewards
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Forever
Pleasure
Past
Punishments

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