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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.
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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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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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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 is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Writers talk too much.
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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 all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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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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