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Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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 lose your manners when you're poor.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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Writers talk too much.
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