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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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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.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman
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
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.
Lillian Hellman
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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.
Lillian Hellman
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
