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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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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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