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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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