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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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