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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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Writers talk too much.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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