Lillian Hellman - Truth Quotes

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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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

Is it age, or was it always my nature, to take a bad time, block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Lillian Hellman

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Lillian Hellman