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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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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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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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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