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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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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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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 lose your manners when you're poor.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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 judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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