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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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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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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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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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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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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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