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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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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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