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Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking ...
— Lillian Hellman
You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.
— Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
— Lillian Hellman
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
— Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
— Lillian Hellman
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
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
The convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
— 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
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
— Lillian Hellman
A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.
— Lillian Hellman
The happy problem of our time - longer life.
— Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
— Lillian Hellman
Writers talk too much.
— Lillian Hellman
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
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
— Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
— Lillian Hellman
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
— Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
— Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
— Lillian Hellman
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
— Lillian Hellman
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
— Lillian Hellman
You can't recover from what you do not understand.
— Lillian Hellman
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
— Lillian Hellman
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
— Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
— Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
— Lillian Hellman
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
— Lillian Hellman
How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.
— Lillian Hellman
People change and forget to tell each other.
— Lillian Hellman
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
— Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
— Lillian Hellman
I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.
— Rosemary Mahoney
As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
— Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
— Lillian Hellman
Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.
— 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.
— Lillian Hellman
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The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
— 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
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
Fear comes with middle age.
— Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
— Lillian Hellman
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
— Lillian Hellman
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
— Lillian Hellman
Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
— Lillian Hellman
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
— Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
— Lillian Hellman
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
— 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 the night.
— Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you are poor.
— Lillian Hellman
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
— Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
— Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
— Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
— Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
— Lillian Hellman
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
— Lillian Hellman
Freedom costs you a great deal.
— Lillian Hellman
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
I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.
— Alec Baldwin
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
— Lillian Hellman
God forgives those who invent what they need.
— Lillian Hellman
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
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
— Lillian Hellman
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
— Lillian Hellman
Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?
— Lillian Hellman
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
— Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
— 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
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
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
— Lillian Hellman
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
— Lillian Hellman
Some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
— Lillian Hellman