Great Throughts Treasury

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Lillian Hellman, fully Lillian Florience "Lily" Hellman

American Author, Playwright and Actress

"Fear comes with middle age."

"God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess them up for all time, or hating the trash so much they will waste their future on the hatred."

"I didn’t know what she was saying when she moved her lips in a Baptist church or a Catholic cathedral or, less often, in a synagogue, but it was obvious that God could be found anywhere."

"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."