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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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