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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
Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Scoundrels
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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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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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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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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 only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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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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