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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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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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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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