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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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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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Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
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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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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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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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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Styles in wit change so.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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