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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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