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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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 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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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