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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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