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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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