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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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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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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.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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.
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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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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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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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Writers talk too much.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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