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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.
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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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Writers talk too much.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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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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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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