Lillian Hellman Quotes

Best Quotes by Lillian Hellman (Top 10)

People change and forget to tell each other.
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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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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
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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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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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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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Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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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.
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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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