Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Lillian HellmanNobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian HellmanHistory is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
Lillian HellmanIt was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
Lillian Hellman