Lillian Hellman Quotes
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Lillian Hellman |
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Author Details: Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: American Dramatist Quotes Date of Birth: June 20, 1907 Date of Death: June 30, 1984 Nationality: American Amazon: Lillian Hellman on Amazon |
Related Authors:
Wilson Mizner Tennessee Williams Zora Neale Hurston George S. Kaufman David Mamet Eugene O'Neill Edward Albee Clare Boothe Luce |
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Select Lillian Hellman Quotations: People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Lillian Hellman I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. Lillian Hellman My father was often angry when I was most like him. Lillian Hellman 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 Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. Lillian Hellman 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. Lillian Hellman |
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Quote Keywords: Everything, Makes, Man, Stand, Straight, Success |
Dictionary Links: Everything, Man, Stand, Straight, Success |
All Lillian Hellman Quotations: Belief is a moral act for... Cynicism is an unpleasant way of... Failure in the theater is more... God forgives those who invent what... I cannot and will not cut... I like people who refuse to... If I had to give young... If you believe, as the Greeks... It is a mark of many... It is best to act with... It is not good to see... Lonely people, in talking to each... My father was often angry when... Nobody outside of a baby carriage... Nothing you write, if you hope... People change and forget to tell... Since when do we have to... Success isn't everything but it makes... There are people who eat the... They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers... Things start out as hopes and... Truth made you a traitor as... Unjust. How many times I've used... We are a people who do... What a word is truth. Slippery... You lose your manners when you... |
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