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Lillian Hellman Quotes

«People change and forget to tell each other.»
«If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.»
Author: Lillian Hellman (Playwright) | About: Advice, Writing | Keywords: writers
«Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.»
Author: Lillian Hellman (Playwright) | About: Cynicism | Keywords: cynicism, unpleasant
«Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.»
«It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.»
«My father was often angry when I was most like him.»
Author: Lillian Hellman (Playwright) | About: Family, Fathers | Keywords: my father
«The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.»
«Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?»
«It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.»
«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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