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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Watch on the Rhine
I think people always believe what they want to believe, don't you?
LILLIAN HELLMAN, Another Part of the Forest
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Autumn Garden
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to suit this year's fashions.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, letter to House Committee on Un-American Activities, May 19, 1952
LILLIAN HELLMAN, Days to Come
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Autumn Garden
You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, Another Part of the Forest
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Little Foxes
You take many words to say simple things.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Autumn Garden
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, An Unfinished Woman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, "Theatre", Pentimento
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