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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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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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