Quotes by Lillian Hellman

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• Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

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• If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

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• It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

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• It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

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• Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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• They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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• You lose your manners when you're poor.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• nineteenth-century
• twentieth-century
• themselves
• indulgence
• injustice
• writing

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