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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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 maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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