Rebels seldom make good ...

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
 Lillian Hellman

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
 Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
 Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
 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