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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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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