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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Writers talk too much.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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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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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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