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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.
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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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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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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