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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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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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 lose your manners when you're poor.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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