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Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Time, You, Made

Lillian Hellman

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Confidence, Matter, You

Lillian Hellman

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Good, People, See

Lillian Hellman

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

People, Famous People, Mark

Lillian Hellman

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Writing, Guilty, You

Lillian Hellman

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Good, Nothing, You

Lillian Hellman

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

End, Start, Habits

Lillian Hellman

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.

writers, writing

Lillian Hellman

Most 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

The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.

Lillian Hellman

Was 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

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.