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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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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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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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