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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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