You don't always know how to do things when they're happening. Lillian Hellman More Quotes by Lillian Hellman More Quotes From Lillian Hellman It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. Lillian Hellman confidencematterlittles Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. Lillian Hellman habitends 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. Lillian Hellman earthwatchespeople Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Hellman womendiversitypeople People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman marriagechangerelationship You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not. Lillian Hellman opinionpeopleworld It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. Lillian Hellman mistaketimeinspirational I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group. Lillian Hellman long-agofashioncutting Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do. Lillian Hellman irrationalconfidencemade The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead. Lillian Hellman aginggood-things Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become. Lillian Hellman painmemorieschildren I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. Lillian Hellman fashionintegritypeace Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Lillian Hellman nobody-knowssorrywant For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. Lillian Hellman freedommenlife Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. Lillian Hellman responsiblemoralbelief I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. Lillian Hellman womenmemorablepeople You can't recover from what you do not understand. Lillian Hellman understanding Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. Lillian Hellman lonelylonelinessmean Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them? Lillian Hellman perceptionpeoplethinking 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. Lillian Hellman mistakepastthinking
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