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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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