I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. - Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
- Lillian Hellman
Styles in wit change so. - Lillian Hellman
Styles in wit change so.
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. - Lillian Hellman
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing. - Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead. - Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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 … - Lillian Hellman
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 …
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. - Lillian Hellman
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. - Lillian Hellman
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
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