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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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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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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