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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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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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Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
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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.
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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 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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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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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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My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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