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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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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Fashions in sin change.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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