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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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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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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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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