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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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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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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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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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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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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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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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Writers talk too much.
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Fashions in sin change.
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