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
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their finest hour.
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.