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If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
— Lillian Hellman
Tags: critics-and-criticism

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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
— Lillian Hellman
Tags: truth, respect, reality, self-control
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
— Lillian Hellman
Tags: talking, say, writing, advice
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
— Lillian Hellman
Tags: more, feel, you, failure
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
— Lillian Hellman
Tags: tried, books, tell, truth
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
— Lillian Hellman
Tags: made, traitor, time, you, truth
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