01UndatedIt's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
05UndatedWell, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
06UndatedNobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
07UndatedNothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
09UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
11UndatedDecisions 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.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
12UndatedWas it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
13UndatedI cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
14UndatedIt is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
16UndatedThe past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
17UndatedMost people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort at the least and death at the other end ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
18UndatedThey'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.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
20UndatedNothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
21UndatedFailure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
22UndatedIt is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
23UndatedIt is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
