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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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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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