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Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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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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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Fashions in sin change.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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