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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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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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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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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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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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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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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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