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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.
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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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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