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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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