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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Writers talk too much.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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