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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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