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Lillian Hellman

People change and forget to tell each other.
— Lillian Hellman change
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
— Lillian Hellman confidence
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
— Lillian Hellman hope
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
— Lillian Hellman god
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
— Lillian Hellman truth
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
— Lillian Hellman art
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
— Lillian Hellman people
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
— Lillian Hellman time
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
— Lillian Hellman people
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
— Lillian Hellman writing
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
— Lillian Hellman people
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
— Lillian Hellman people
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
— Lillian Hellman believe
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
— Lillian Hellman man
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
— Lillian Hellman people
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
— Lillian Hellman father
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
— Lillian Hellman art
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
— Lillian Hellman truth
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
— Lillian Hellman hope
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
— Lillian Hellman writing
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 time
God forgives those who invent what they need.
— Lillian Hellman need
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
— Lillian Hellman science
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 writing
You lose your manners when you are poor.
— Lillian Hellman man

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