“Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.”
“Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.”
Lillian Hellman
“My father was often angry when I was most like him.”
Lillian Hellman“Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.”
Lillian Hellman“People change and forget to tell each other.”
Lillian Hellman“God forgives those who invent what they need.”
Lillian Hellman“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.”
Lillian Hellman“Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.”
Lillian Hellman“What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.”
Lillian Hellman“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
Lillian Hellman“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”
Lillian Hellman“It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.”
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