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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can 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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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