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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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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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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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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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 lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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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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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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