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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Writers talk too much.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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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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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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