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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
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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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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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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