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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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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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Styles in wit change so.
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Writers talk too much.
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Fashions in sin change.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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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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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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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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