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We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

~Lillian Hellman

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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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God forgives those who invent what they need.

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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

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Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

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There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: June 20th, 1905

Died: June 30th, 1984

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