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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.
By Lillian Hellman
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
By Lillian Hellman
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.
By 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.
By 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.
By Lillian Hellman
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
By Lillian Hellman
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
By Lillian Hellman
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
By Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
By Lillian Hellman