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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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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Styles in wit change so.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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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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Writers talk too much.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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