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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.
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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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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