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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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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 do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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