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Fear comes with middle age.
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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Styles in wit change so.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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