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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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 lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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