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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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 do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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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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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, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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