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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman
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
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
