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Lillian Hellman was an American playwright and screenwriter, renowned for her dramatic works and political activism. Her plays frequently delved into themes of political intrigue and personal morality, making her a significant figure in American theater during the mid-20th century.

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Famous Lillian Hellman Quotes

“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.”

America Class Century Intellectual England Bills Sells Russia France Goods 20th Century Ruling 19th Century France And England

Author:Lillian Hellman

“We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.”

Thinking Important Ends Sometimes Importance Affair Eggs Love Affair Boiling Pedestrians

Book:Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman

“Fear comes with middle age.”

Age Middle Middle Ages

Book:Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman

“Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.”

People Action Revolution Unions Revolutionary Organized Rebel

Author:Lillian Hellman

“How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.”

Play Games Poor Rich Nasty Rich And Poor

Book:Toys in the Attic

Source: Toys in the Attic

“But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.”

Success Class Chairs Couches Success And Failure

Author:Lillian Hellman

“Writers talk too much.”

Book:Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman

“You lose your manners when you're poor.”

Loses Poor Poverty Manners

Book:Six Plays

Source: Six Plays

“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.”

People Earth Watches

Book:The Little Foxes: Play in Three Acts

Source: The Little Foxes: Play in Three Acts

About the Author

Born: June 20, 1905
Died: June 30, 1984
Known for: Author
Quotes: 109

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An Unfinished Woman: A MemoirRelated source material

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