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Lillian Hellman quotes: Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking ... Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking ...
Lillian Hellman quotes: You don't always know how to do things when they're happening. You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.
Lillian Hellman quotes: If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Lillian Hellman quotes: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman quotes: I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do ... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do ... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. 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 quotes: The convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money. The convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman quotes: It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman quotes: A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own. A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.
Lillian Hellman quotes: The happy problem of our time - longer life. The happy problem of our time - longer life.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman quotes: Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Writers talk too much. Writers talk too much.
Lillian Hellman quotes: 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. 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.
Lillian Hellman quotes: A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant. A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
Lillian Hellman quotes: You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing. You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman quotes: What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman quotes: People change and forget to tell each other. People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman quotes: One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion. One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
Lillian Hellman quotes: But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie. But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that. Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman quotes: You can't recover from what you do not understand. You can't recover from what you do not understand.
Lillian Hellman quotes: It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in. It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman quotes: The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men. The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live. Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do. Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman quotes: How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought. How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.
Lillian Hellman quotes: God forgives those who invent what they need. God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all. Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman quotes: You can always spot clothes made in a good place. You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman quotes: As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself. As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian Hellman quotes: I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book. Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.
Lillian Hellman quotes: 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. 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.
Lillian Hellman quotes: The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead. The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman quotes: People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music. People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman quotes: The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair. Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Fear comes with middle age. Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault? Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman quotes: Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman quotes: The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth. The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want. Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
Lillian Hellman quotes: You lose your manners when you're poor. You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman quotes: I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night. I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
Lillian Hellman quotes: For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman quotes: You lose your manners when you are poor. You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lillian Hellman quotes: I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
Lillian Hellman quotes: No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman quotes: My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much. My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman quotes: It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman quotes: It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman quotes: It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Freedom costs you a great deal. Freedom costs you a great deal.
Lillian Hellman quotes: If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
Lillian Hellman quotes: My father was often angry when I was most like him. My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Lillian Hellman quotes: A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it. Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Callous greed grows pious very fast. Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman quotes: I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them? Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?
Lillian Hellman quotes: Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them. Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman quotes: 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? 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 quotes: Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman quotes: If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point. If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman quotes: Some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity. Some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

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