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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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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Writers talk too much.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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