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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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