Lillian Hellman Quotes

American - Dramatist | June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

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

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

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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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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

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

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

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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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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.

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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

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God forgives those who invent what they need.

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