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  1. What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
  2. You are reminded that this subject has a national reputation through her writings in which she has opposed nazism and fascism. Under no cir…
  3. 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…
  4. Today, when every form of perversion except masturbation and bestiality have been shown on the screen, Hellman, Wyler and the Mirisch Co. a…
  5. Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only t…
  6. Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
  7. 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…
  8. If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred…

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