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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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Writers talk too much.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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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.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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 only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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