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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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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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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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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