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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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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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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Writers talk too much.
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