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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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
Louisiana
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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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