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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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