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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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Lillian Florence Hellman
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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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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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
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Styles in wit change so.
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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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