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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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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
Lillian Hellman
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman