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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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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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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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