Lillian Hellman Quotes - Page 4

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• The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

  Lillian Hellman

  Men, World, Hunger

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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?

  Lillian Hellman

  Success, Block, Good Times

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• I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

  Lillian Hellman

  Life, Night, Games

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

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• I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

  Lillian Hellman

  Wanted

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

  Lillian Hellman

  Games, Play, Nasty

  Lillian Hellman (1988). “Toys in the Attic”, p.41, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

  Lillian Hellman

  Giving, Want, Easier

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• A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

  Lillian Hellman

  Simple, Deception, Ignorant

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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• Styles in wit change so.

  Lillian Hellman

  Style, Wit

  Lillian Hellman (1942). “Four plays”

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• some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

  Lillian Hellman

  Party, People, Choices

  Lillian Hellman (1974). “Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts”, p.34, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

  Lillian Hellman

  Country, World, May

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• You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Clothes, Made

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

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• But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

  Lillian Hellman

  Success, Class, Chairs

  "Conversations with Lillian Hellman".

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• The happy problem of our time - longer life.

  Lillian Hellman

  Age, Problem, Longer Life

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

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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.

  Lillian Hellman

  War, Struggle, Ties

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

  Lillian Hellman

  Fathers Day, Women, Anger

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• If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.

  Lillian Hellman

  Say Anything, Might, Ifs

  "Seeing Mary Plain : A Life of Mary McCarthy". Book by Frances Kiernan, 2002.

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• I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

  Lillian Hellman

  Motivational, Regret, Forgiving

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• Writers talk too much.

  Lillian Hellman

  Too Much

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

  Lillian Hellman

  Hollywood, Television, Conviction

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

  Lillian Hellman

  Years, Together, Littles

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• The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Music, Inspiration, Judgment

  Lillian Hellman (1974). “Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts”, p.31, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

  Lillian Hellman

  Music, People, Sound

  Lillian Hellman (1974). “Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

  Lillian Hellman

  Thinking, Long, Pieces

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fields, Brilliant, Theater

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