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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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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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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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