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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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