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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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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 world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they 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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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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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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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