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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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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 I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Writers talk too much.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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