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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.
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
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Writers talk too much.
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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
