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Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Lucille Kallen

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Lucille Kallen
Age: 76 †
Born: 1922
Born: May 28
Died: 1999
Died: January 18
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
LA
California
Muses
Unemployed
Muse
Employed
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Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?
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My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.
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Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.
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