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Fear comes with middle age.
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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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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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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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