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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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More quotes by Lillian Hellman
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman
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.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
Lillian Hellman
