All Lillian Hellman Quotes
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
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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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Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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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.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
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