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"Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier."
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Lillian HellmanFor every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the — Lillian Hellman
"For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt."
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Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s
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"A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young."
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"We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, thats all we can promise in truth."
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"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did."
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"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judges chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view but, simply in self-interest, the biographer must try for one, or make us believe he has, or tell us that he hasnt."
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"There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it aint right to stand and watch them do it."
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