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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3342/">Quotes by <em>Hellman, Lillian</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, romantically involved for thirty years with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. She was also a long-time friend of poet Dorothy Parker. Her most famous works include The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939) and Toys in the Attic (1959). · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"

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"Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America."

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"You lose your manners when you're poor."

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"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."

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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."

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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."

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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

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