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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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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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Styles in wit change so.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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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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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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