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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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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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Everybody's got a habit.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Fashions in sin change.
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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.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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