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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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 public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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Writers talk too much.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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