Lillian Hellman
» Belief » “It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.”
» Conscience » “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.”
» Fame » “It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
» Injustice » “Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”
» Intelligence and Intellectuals » “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.”
» Poverty and The Poor » “You lose your manners when you’re poor.”
» Writers and Writing » “If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
» Writers and Writing » “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.”
