Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
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Lillian Hellman
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About Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the U.S. film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Lillian HellmanIt is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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 …
People change and forget to tell each other.
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