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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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 doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
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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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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Writers talk too much.
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