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

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

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About Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (20 June 1905 – 30 June 1984) was an American playwright.

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Alternative Names: Lillian Florence Hellman
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Sad is a fake word for me to be using, I am still angry that their reason for disagreeing with McCarthy was too often his crude methods. . . . Many of the anti-Communists were, of course, honest men. But none of them . . . has stepped forward to admit a mistake. It is not necessary in this country; they too know that we are a people who do not remember much. I have written here that I have recovered. I mean it only in a worldly sense because I do not believe in recovery. The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

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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 nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

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