Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellmanwas an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activitiesat the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a precipitous decline in her income during which time she had to work outside her chosen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 June 1905
CountryUnited States of America
Everybody's got a habit.
You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
Styles in wit change so.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.