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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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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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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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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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