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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Styles in wit change so.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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