Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman

"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
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"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
Lillian Hellman
"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
Lillian Hellman
"God forgives those who invent what they need."
Lillian Hellman
"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
"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
Lillian Hellman
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
Lillian Hellman
"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
Lillian Hellman
"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
Lillian Hellman
"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
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."
Lillian Hellman
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
Lillian Hellman
"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
Lillian Hellman
"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
"Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort at the least and death at the other end ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous."
Lillian Hellman
"The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be."
Lillian Hellman
"I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
Lillian Hellman
"It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it."
Lillian Hellman
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
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
"Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do."
Lillian Hellman
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