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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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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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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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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