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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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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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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 lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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