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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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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Fashions in sin change.
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