If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian HellmanThe past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian HellmanIt is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian HellmanOld paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
Lillian Hellman