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Writers talk too much.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
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Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
Writers
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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