Lillian Hellman Quotes - Page 3

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• Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Mean

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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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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  Inspirational, Writing, Talking

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

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  Russia, Class, America

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• Everybody's got a habit.

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  Habit

  Lillian Hellman (1942). “Four plays, by Lillian Hellman: The children's hour. Days to come. The little foxes. Watch on the Rhine”, Modern Library

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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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  Thinking, People, Decision

  Lillian Hellman (1974). “Pentimento”

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• Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

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  Book, Writing, Thinker

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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

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  Change, Women, People

  Pentimento "Theatre" (1973)

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• What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

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  Book, Telling The Truth, Tricky

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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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  Mean, Self, Justice

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• The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

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  Writing, Matter, Intention

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

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  Thinking, People, Guilt

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• Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

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  Confidence, Variation, Statistician

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• Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

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  Teaching, Majority Vote, Government

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

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  Success, Men

  Lillian Hellman (1988). “Toys in the Attic”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.

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  Book, Writing, Play

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.125, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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  Punishment, Issues, Battle

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• A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

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  Islands, House, Solitude

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Promise

  Lillian Hellman (1957). “CANDIDE The famous musical based on Voltaire's satire”

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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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  Writing, Cost, Guilty

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You lose your manners when you're poor.

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  Poverty, Poor, Manners

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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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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  Women, Memorable, People

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• My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

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  Mother, Years, Five

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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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  Writing, Afterlife, Firsts

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• A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

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  Lying, Men, Should

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

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  Comfort, Cushions, Comfortable

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