It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. -Lillian Hellman Strength
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 Failure
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 hell with justice. -Lillian Hellman Courage
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. -Lillian Hellman Hope
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. -Lillian Hellman Truth
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. -Lillian Hellman Famous
