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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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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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Fashions in sin change.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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