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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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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Writers talk too much.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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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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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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