American - Dramatist | June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
ChangeRelationshipPeopleForget
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
ConfidenceBestYouMatterRight
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
TruthTimeYouTraitorMadeOften
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
FashionYearWillConscienceCut
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.
BeginningManBelieveProblemsEnd
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
StrengthGoodPeopleLoseSeeBeen
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
PeopleLonelyTalkingMakeOther
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
TruthSayingWayCynicismUnpleasant
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
CommunicationPeopleSpeakReadyWho
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
FailureWritingFeelYouGuilty
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
TruthTellBooksSlipperyTried
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
PeopleInjusticeDefendAgreeSince
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