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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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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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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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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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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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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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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
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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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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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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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You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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Writers talk too much.
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It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
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Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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