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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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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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