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Everybody's got a habit.

Lillian Hellman

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Styles in wit change so.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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