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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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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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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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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