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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman
