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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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Fashions in sin change.
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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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Writers talk too 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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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