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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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More quotes by Lillian Hellman
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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Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman
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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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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Everybody's got a habit.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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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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The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
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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