Zitat des Tages von Lillian Hellman:
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
People change and forget to tell each other.
You lose your manners when you are poor.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.