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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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Fashions in sin change.
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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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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Writers talk too much.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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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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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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