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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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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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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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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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