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God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Fashions in sin change.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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