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Lillian Hellman [1905-1984] American

Rank: 102
Dramatist

Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism.

Truth, Anger, Change, Communication, Courage, Failure, Famous, Forgiveness, Hope, Relationship, Strength, Success

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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.	Truth	101
People change and forget to tell each other.	Change, Relationship	102
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.	Truth	103
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.		104
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.		105
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.	Truth	106
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.	Communication	107
My father was often angry when I was most like him.	Anger	108
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.		109
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.	Success	110
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.		111
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.		112
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.		113
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.		114
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.	Famous	115
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?		116
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.	Hope	117
God forgives those who invent what they need.	Forgiveness	118
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.	Courage	119
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.		120
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.	Strength	121
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.		122
You lose your manners when you are poor.		123
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.		124
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.		125
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.	Failure	126

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