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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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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
Lillian Hellman
Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman
Writers talk too much.
Lillian Hellman
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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
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
