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I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

Lillian Hellman

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

Lillian Hellman

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Lillian Hellman

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Lillian Hellman

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Lillian Hellman