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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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Fashions in sin change.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Writers talk too much.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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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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