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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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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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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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