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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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.
Lillian Hellman
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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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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Styles in wit change so.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
Fear comes with middle age.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
Lillian Hellman
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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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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