"I like people who refuse to speak until……" — Lillian Hellman
"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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65 Quotes by Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman has 65 quotes on this site.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it…
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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became…
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Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
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The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to…
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Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.…
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Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to…
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
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I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.
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More Communication Quotes
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
— Erykah Badu
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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