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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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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.
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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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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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