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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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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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Fashions in sin change.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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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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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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