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Lillian Hellman Quotes


An American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes.
Lillian Florence “Lily” Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett (and was the inspiration for his character Nora Charles), and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker.

Here are some famous quotes by Lillian Hellman.

People change and forget to tell each other.

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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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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.

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It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

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Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.

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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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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.

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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?

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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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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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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.

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If truth is beauty how come no one has their hair done in the library?

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

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I always wanted to be somebody but now I realize I should have been more specific.