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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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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People change and forget to tell each other.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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Fear comes with middle age.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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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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