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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.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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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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