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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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