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Styles in wit change so.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
Fashions in sin change.
Lillian Hellman
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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