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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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 do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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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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