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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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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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Fashions in sin change.
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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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