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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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