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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
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Styles in wit change so.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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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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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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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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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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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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