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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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