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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
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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Fear comes with middle age.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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