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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
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
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.
Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman
