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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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Writers talk too much.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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