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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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Fashions in sin change.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
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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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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