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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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