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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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New Orleans
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Everybody's got a habit.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Fashions in sin change.
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