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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Styles in wit change so.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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