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Writers talk too much.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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