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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
Writers talk too much.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Lillian Hellman
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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