Lillian Hellman Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous Lillian Hellman quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was an American dramatist who passed away on 30 June, 1984.
“People change and forget to tell each other.”
“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”
“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.”
“Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”
“We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.”
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
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