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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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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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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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