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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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Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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 I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Fashions in sin change.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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