"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
-Lillian Hellman
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
-Lillian Hellman
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"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."
-Lillian Hellman
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"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
-Lillian Hellman
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"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
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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."
-Lillian Hellman
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
-Brian Tracy
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
-Lord Acton
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