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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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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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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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