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It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
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Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.
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books
potboilers
dashiell-hammett
william-faulkner
quality
sanctuary
writers
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I was so often silent angry with Hammett for making the situation hard on me, not knowing then that the dying do not, should not, be asked to think about anything but their own minute of running time.
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illness
death
dashiell-hammett
sickness
dying
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman |
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Lillian Hellman |
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Lillian Hellman |
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Lillian Hellman |
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Lillian Hellman |
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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Lillian Hellman |