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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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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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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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