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Lillian Hellman Inspirational Quotes (61)

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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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Fashions in sin change.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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