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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 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.
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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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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.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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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.
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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.
Lillian Hellman
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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