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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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