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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
Writers
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Everybody's got a habit.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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