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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
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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