Lillian Hellman

Dramatist

1905-06-20

Books by Lillian Hellman

The little foxes
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The Children's Hour
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Pentimento - A Book Of Portraits
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Quotes by 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.
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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.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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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.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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.
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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.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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It is the mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
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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.
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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from in justice?
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Fear comes with middle age.
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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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Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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