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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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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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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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Styles in wit change so.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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