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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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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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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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