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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Lillian Hellman

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Failure
Public
Unreal
Brilliant
Field
Theater

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