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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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
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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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Writers talk too much.
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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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as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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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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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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