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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
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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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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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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