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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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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Writers talk too much.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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