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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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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Styles in wit change so.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Writers talk too much.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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 can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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