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People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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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 I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Fashions in sin change.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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