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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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.
Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman
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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Styles in wit change so.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Fashions in sin change.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
