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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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