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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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