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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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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Styles in wit change so.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
