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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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