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Lillian Hellman

"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

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"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."

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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"

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"Here is a nice tip, safe the shit which now you are saying for later one day you will need it."

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"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."

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"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."

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"Never go on a date unarmed. Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are."

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"A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector."

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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

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"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
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"People change and forget to tell each other."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
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"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
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"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
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