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> [You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/you-are-what-you-are-it-is-my-opinion-that-trouble-in-the-world-comes/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

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## More by Lillian Hellman

> [failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/failure-in-the-theater-is-more-public-more-brilliant-more-unreal-than/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/failure-in-the-theater-is-more-dramatic-and-uglier-than-any-other/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/a-man-should-be-jailed-for-telling-lies-to-the-young/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/i-don-t-think-many-writers-like-their-best-known-piece-of-work/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/i-live-in-a-room-and-i-go-to-work-and-i-play-a-game-called-getting/)

[LILLIAN HELLMAN](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/there-are-people-who-eat-the-earth-and-eat-all-the-people-on-it-like/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/nothing-you-write-if-you-hope-to-be-good-will-ever-come-out-as-you/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/decision-by-democratic-majority-vote-is-a-fine-form-of-government-but/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/haven-t-you-lived-in-the-south-long-enough-to-know-that-nothing-is/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/we-will-not-think-noble-because-we-are-not-noble-we-will-not-live-in/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/it-was-an-unspoken-pleasure-that-having-come-together-so-many-years/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/intellectuals-can-tell-themselves-anything-sell-themselves-any-bill/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/courtesy-is-breeding-breeding-is-an-excellent-thing-always-remember/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [You lose your manners when you're poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/you-lose-your-manners-when-you-re-poor/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

> [Fashions in sin change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/fashions-in-sin-change/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

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