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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

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.
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Angry, Father, Him, Most, Often

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Angry, Father, Him, Most, Often