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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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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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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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Writers talk too much.
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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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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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