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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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Writers talk too much.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Styles in wit change so.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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