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Fashions in sin change.
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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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.
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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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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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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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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Writers talk too much.
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