Quotes by Hellman, Lillian

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

Hellman, Lillian on fame   

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

Hellman, Lillian on justice   

"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."

Hellman, Lillian on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Hellman, Lillian on poverty and the poor   

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

Hellman, Lillian on belief   

"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."

Hellman, Lillian on writers and writing   

"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

Hellman, Lillian on writers and writing
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

Hellman, Lillian on science
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"Was it always in my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success becomes an accident and failure seemed the only truth?"

Hellman, Lillian on success   

"Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell."

Hellman, Lillian on determination
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"People change and forget to tell each other."

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