Mama seemed to do only what ...

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
 Lillian Hellman

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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.
 Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
 Lillian Hellman
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 Lillian Hellman
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.
 Lillian Hellman
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
 Lillian Hellman