Quote #19

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

More from Lillian Hellman

  1. It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
  2. It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
  3. Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling class…
  4. It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
  5. If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. …
  6. My father was often angry when I was most like him.
  7. I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
  8. Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

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