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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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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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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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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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