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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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
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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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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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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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