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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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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Styles in wit change so.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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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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