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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Writers talk too much.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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