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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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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