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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

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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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Spot
Spots
Clothes
Fashion
Place
Made
Good

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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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