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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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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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