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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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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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