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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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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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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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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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