as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself. Lillian Hellman More Quotes by Lillian Hellman More Quotes From Lillian Hellman I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. Lillian Hellman needleworkembroideryfancy Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Lillian Hellman afterlifewritingfirsts I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night. Lillian Hellman gamesnightlife The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Lillian Hellman punishmentmemoriespast Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth? Lillian Hellman good-timesblocksuccess Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all. Lillian Hellman drinkingnightpeople 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 guiltycostwriting 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 selfjusticemean Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that. Lillian Hellman courtesyexcellentremember One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion. Lillian Hellman cushionscomfortablecomfort My father was often angry when I was most like him. Lillian Hellman fathers-daywomenanger Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. Lillian Hellman majority-votegovernmentteaching Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. Lillian Hellman being-alonelonelyloneliness Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America. Lillian Hellman russiaclassamerica Fashions in sin change. Lillian Hellman fashionsin Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking. Lillian Hellman excuseguiltthinking God forgives those who invent what they need. Lillian Hellman inventionforgivingneeds A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. Lillian Hellman shouldmenlying I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. Lillian Hellman pieceslongthinking A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant. Lillian Hellman ignorantdeceptionsimple
