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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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