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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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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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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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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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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