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Writers talk too much.
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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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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 can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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 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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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