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“ Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. ”

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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

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Lillian Hellman Atonement Forgiveness Regret

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

~ Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman Reality Respect Truth

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

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Lillian Hellman Avarice Greed Locust Southern Women Southern Writers

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

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