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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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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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