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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Fashions in sin change.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
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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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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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