Lillian Hellman's Quotes

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

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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

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

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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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God forgives those who invent what they need.

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

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

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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

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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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