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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Everybody's got a habit.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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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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