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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.
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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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