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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
Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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Writers talk too much.
Lillian Hellman
I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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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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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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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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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
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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