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Lillian Hellman Quotes: Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
         

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.


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



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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.



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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.



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

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



People change and forget to tell each other.

People change and forget to tell each other.



It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.



Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.



I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.



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

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



For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.





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