Lillian Florence Hellman Quotes

• 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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• You lose your manners when you are poor.

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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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• 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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• Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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• There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

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• Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.

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• Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

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• My father was often angry when I was most like him.

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• Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

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

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• It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

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• If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody’s mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.

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• God forgives those who invent what they need.

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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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  Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

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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.

  Lillian Florence Hellman

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It’s like arguing about earthquakes.

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Lillian Florence Hellman (43)

Birth:	8th February, 1982
Nationality:	Australian, Bosnian
Profession:	Actor, Anchor

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