If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. -Lillian Hellman

 

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.


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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. -Lillian Hellman
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

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211

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. -Lillian Hellman
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The only thing good about it is you're not dead.

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