All Lillian Hellman Quotes
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Lillian 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
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They'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
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
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There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
Lillian Hellman
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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Lillian Hellman
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman
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