Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Lillian Hellman
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  2. I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

  3. Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

  4. I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  5. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch...

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