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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
People
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
Act
Confidence
Right
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
People
Lonely
Talking
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
People
Famous
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
Gods
Beginning
End
Man
Mercy
Problems
Tragedy
Will
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
Advice
Talking
Writers
Writing
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman
People
Strength
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
Lillian Hellman
Conscience
Fashion
Will
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
God
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman
Failure
Theater
Writing
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
Belief
Act
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Lillian Hellman
Father
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman
People
Injustice
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Truth
Cynicism
Saying
You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lillian Hellman
Manners
Poor