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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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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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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with 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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Fashions in sin change.
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