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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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