Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
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Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
“[France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.”
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
“As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.”
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this season's fashions.”
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
“It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.”
Source: The collected plays
Source: Four plays, by Lillian Hellman: The children's hour. Days to come. The little foxes. Watch on the Rhine
“You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.”
Source: Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts
“A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.”
Source: The collected plays
“But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.”
Source: Six Plays
“It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.”
Source: Four Plays
“Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.”
Source: The collected plays
Source: The collected plays
“A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.”
Source: Scoundrel time
Source: The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts
“the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.”
Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman
“Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.”
“My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.”
Source: Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts
“People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.”
Source: Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts
“The happy problem of our time - longer life.”
Source: The collected plays
“Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?”
Source: Six Plays
“some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.”
Source: Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts
“A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.”
Source: The collected plays
Source: The North Star: A Motion Picture about Some Russian People
Source: Six Plays
“failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.”
“Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?”
Source: The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts
Source: Four Plays
Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman
“You can always spot clothes made in a good place.”
Source: Six Plays
“Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.”