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Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
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
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
Writers talk too much.
Lillian Hellman
Fashions in sin change.
Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
