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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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