"Success and failure are not true op-posites and……" — Lillian Hellman
"Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair."
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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 Chair Quotes
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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about…
— Red Adair
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
— Nicholson Baker
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
— Ben Bernanke
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When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and…
— Drew Bledsoe
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I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with…
— Andrea Bocelli
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own…
— Jackie Chan
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I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair.…
— Dick Cheney
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
— Brian Clough
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens…
— Barbara Jordan
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In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries…
— Rosie Perez
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo…
— Wallace Stevens
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