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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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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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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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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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