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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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