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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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