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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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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
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
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian Hellman
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Lillian Hellman
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
Lillian Hellman
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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
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.
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