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Lillian Hellman

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


— Lillian Hellman


#conscience

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


#inspirational

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.


— Lillian Hellman


#like #people #ready #refuse #speak

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.


— Lillian Hellman


#best #confidence #how #little #matter

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.


— Lillian Hellman


#forgiveness #regret #forgiveness

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.


— Lillian Hellman


#makes #man #stand #straight #success

People change and forget to tell each other.


— Lillian Hellman


#each #forget #other #people #people change

You lose your manners when you are poor.


— Lillian Hellman


#manners #poor #you #your

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.


— Lillian Hellman


#saying #truth #unpleasant #way

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.


— Lillian Hellman


#belief #believer #held #moral #responsible






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Hellman's papers are held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Hellman denied that the character was based on Gardiner. Endorsing this view the editors of the New Republic wrote that "there are more important questions than Trotsky's guilt".

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