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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb 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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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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