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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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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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People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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