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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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