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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
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More quotes by Lillian Hellman
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Lillian Hellman
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
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
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
