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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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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.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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