01c. 1944 ADIt'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 ↗
04c. 1944 ADI like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
05c. 1944 ADWell, 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 ↗
06c. 1944 ADNobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
07c. 1944 ADNothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
09c. 1944 ADIf 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 ↗
11c. 1944 ADDecisions 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 ↗
12c. 1944 ADWas 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 ↗
13c. 1944 ADI cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
14c. 1944 ADIt is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
16c. 1944 ADThe past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
17c. 1944 ADMost 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 ↗
18c. 1944 ADThey'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 ↗
20c. 1944 ADNothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
21c. 1944 ADFailure 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 ↗
22c. 1944 ADIt is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
23c. 1944 ADIt is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
24c. 1944 ADTruth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.Lillian Hellman / quote ↗
