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• He was getting over a four-day drunk, and I was getting over a 4-year marriage.

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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.

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• The English don’t raise their voices, Arthur, although they may have other vulgarities.

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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 nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

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• Well, people change and forget to tell each other. Too bad—causes so many mistakes.

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• That’s what you always said, success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.

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• I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper authorities. But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is to me inhuman and indecent and dishonorable.

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• That’s cynical. [Smiles.] Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

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• You lose your manners when you are poor.

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• We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

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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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• Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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• There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

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• Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.

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• Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

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• My father was often angry when I was most like him.

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• Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

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• It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

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Lillian Florence Hellman (43)

Birth:	8th February, 1982
Nationality:	Australian, Bosnian
Profession:	Actor, Anchor

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