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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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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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Writers talk too much.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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.
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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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