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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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