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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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Writers talk too much.
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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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