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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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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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.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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