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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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New Orleans
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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