People change and forget to tell each other.

—Lillian Hellman

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About Lillian Hellman

Portrait of Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the...

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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

—Lillian Hellman

The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

—Lillian Hellman

God help all children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage cans of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess them up for all time, or hating the trash so much they will waste their future on the hatred.

—Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

—Lillian Hellman

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

—Lillian Hellman

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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

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True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero—really look—and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

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