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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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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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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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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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