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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 public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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