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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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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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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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