It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman
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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union. -
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. -
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. -
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. -
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
More quotes by Lillian Hellman
- People change and forget to tell each other.
- 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.
- Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
- It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
- Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.