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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Styles in wit change so.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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