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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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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