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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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.
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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.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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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.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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