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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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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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