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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Styles in wit change so.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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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.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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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